FUNKY SKULL (VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES) | VINYL RECORD (LP) Rap/Hip Hop Abriendo Puertas draws on a

Abriendo Puertas draws on a wider variety of Latin American musical styles

from the dense funk of "And Five" and the robot-drawl of "Back Space" to the street bounce of "Busted" and the fuzzy head-nod of "The Project

with the 'tsk

re-voiced the songs

FUNKY SKULL (VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES) | VINYL RECORD (LP) Rap/Hip Hop Abriendo Puertas draws on aVinyl LP pressing. On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G 2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The result is soulful, psychedelic, and of course, funky at once one of the grooviest and most avant garde albums you'll ever hear. The Verve By Request Series features 180 gram