Salsa Boricua De Chicago Dance Steve Murtha

Steve Murtha

As spiritually adherent to black music as much as they were to black Islam

we’ve scoured the catalog of Belize’s lone record label

they never do

but too common to attract serious interest from collectors of rare soul

Salsa Boricua De Chicago Dance Steve MurthaFar from the twin epicenters of New York and Miami, Carlos Ruiz and his Ebirac label were both feeling and generating the aftershocks of the mid 70s salsa boom. Holed up in their own bustling Puerto Rican community center on Chicagos west side, these third coast salseros plied their trade outside the hot lights, cutting their teeth in city parks, VFW halls, and Holiday Inn rec rooms. Nearly 50 records survive in the wake of orquestas La Justicia, La