It was 1990. Besides producing minor pop and R&B records, I was signed to a small label with international distribution, Nouveau records. I did two albums of instrumental music for them, and just as I had finished preparing the third, I got word that the label had folded.

I moved on to other things, eventually starting the band Mamborama. The tunes I had written for that third instrumental album have never been released until now. Hearing them again after eleven years, I'm surprised that they have held up as well as they have. Of course the production values would have been better if the label hadn't gone under, but I think that the musical ideas come across nonetheless.