Dakila - Dakila 1972

Dakila was a San Francisco band composed mostly of Filipino-Americans. They began their career as an early Santana "cover band" called Soul Sacrifice. One of the original members was conga player Raul Rekow, who went on to perform and record with Malo and Sapo before spending much of the past 31 years in Santana (Raul had already left the band before this LP was recorded). They were an excellent live band, with original material largely in a Santana-influenced Latin Rock style and vocals in English, Tagalog and Spanish. Unfortunately, Epic Records dropped them before they could release their second album, which had some good new songs, a little smoother and more sophisticated.

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