Herb Bernstein's New Crusade

From the back of the bins right to your Download folder.

Virgil on the Facebook group " Never heard of this guy before... picked this one up on a whim, and the karma that a really nice older couple that I love to visit and converse with had it in a stack of records at their booth (got to keep the junker economy circles greased). I think I'm gonna love it."

Go back about 16 years ago this LP was talked about more than a few times by Johnny Yuma on the original Exotica list. Found his original post at the Exotica Archives:

Author: jonathan richardson
Date:  [?]
To: exotica
Subject: [Exotica] Herb Bernstein??

Ok, who out there knows who Herb Bernstein is? I just picked up this record  at a thrift store today called Herb Bernstein's New Crusade and its a dream  come true. Imagine Brass Ring, only more go go and with wordless "na na na"  "pa pa pa" womans vocals with drum breaks galore. Im not joking, the perfect  now sound record does exist. Step aside Phil Bodner and Incredible Bongo  Band."

We traded mp3 rips and got a copy, no artwork scans.  Never saw it until Virgil posted it.

From the linear notes: "We settled on the tuba and bass trombone combination as our lead, then added 3 flamenco guitars, 4 drummers took us out of 'Latin' toward a funky R & B. We used a single bass, at times fender, other times string. On top of it all we placed 3 piccolos and weave a soprano voice through it all for color."

So enclosed a collaboration between 2 crate diggers 16 years apart: Johnny  Yuma's rip and Virgil's photo.

 

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