Continuing with our commitment to the guitar music of the Dominican Republic, we are pleased to announce two new releases: 'Mujer de cabaret', an album with the Dominican crooner, Puerto Plata , and Bachata Roja, a compilation of classic acoustic bachatas from the 1970s and 80s. On the horizon, is a new album by Super Uba, and an electro-acoustic bachata album with the young singer/guitarist Joan Soriano.

We are also broadening iASO's horizons with releases of two newly recorded albums by legendary musicians from Senegal and Guinea, Lankandia Cissoko and Mamady Kouyaté.

Below are highlights from our release schedule:

Tierra Lejana Super Uba - Released 2003 Mar y Cielo Tierra Lejana Con el Alma An album of traditional guitar merengues and bachatas Tierra Lejana features classic Latin vocalist and composer Super Uba accompanied by guitarist Edilio Paredes. Up-tempo and warm, this album is sure to appeal to seasoned lovers of Dominican music as well as to those hearing it for the first time.	Mujer de Cabaret Puerto Plata - Nov 6 2007 Mujer de Cabaret Amarao Con Fe Las Piratas A new album featuring the legendary octogenarian bolero and merengue singer 'Puerto Plata'. A contemporary of Cuban greats like Matamoros and Machin, Puerto Plata sings in the true style of guitar music which swept the Dominican Republic in the 1930s and 40s. His unique style, playful and full of soul, was captured in two live sessions at IASO's studio.	Bachata Roja: Cabaret Bachata Various - Nov. 6 2007 Leonardo Paniagua Eladio R Santos The first ever compilation of classic Dominican bachata. From the early 1960’s to the late 1980’s the legendary voices of Eladio Romero Santos, Leonardo Paniagua and Blas Duran spoke to the hearts of a generation and the dizzying guitar accompaniment of pioneers like Edilio Paredes charted the course of bachata’s rise, and for three decades theirs was the sound of the streets of Santo Domingo.
Mamady Kouyaté The Ambassadors Maracunia 1 Maracunia 2 Lead by the great Bembeya Jazz guitarist, Mamady Kouyaté, The Ambassadors jam electro-acoustic guitar music of the Mandé culture of Guinea, West Africa.	Lion du Sénégal Lankandia Cissoko Ba Souare A renowned kora player of the pedigreed Cissoko lineage, Lankandia fuses traditional Mandé griot music with the high energy Mblax rhythms of his native Senegal.	Mi Ultimo Llanto Joan Soriano Yo te diré Mal Pensado An album of up-tempo steel-string bachata with emerging star, singer/songwriter Joan Soriano. Soriano is a practitioner of Afro-Dominican traditional palo and gaga, and he blends these percussive styles with bachata. Soriano is featured on "The Rough Guide to Bachata" and is a protagonist in acclaimed bachata documentary "Santo Domingo Blues".