First vinyl release ever of these two songs, quality sound pressing, with mastered audio material from original master tape. Comes in a wonderful, authentic and special old-fashioned thick cardboard cover with vintage haptics. Amazing unique piece of afro cuban Jazz from East Germany, called "Los Caribos", which was produced in 1978, after a very inspiring concert tour of the Jazz Trio in Cuba. The B-side features a deep, cinematic, strong new classical & abstract music influence, big gaps with tension parts and strong drum-work-jazz tune, that sounds quite futuristic for it´s time. Friedhelm Schönfeld is one of the most known progressive Jazz musician & composer of the former East-Germany era, who is still active untill today. Since 1960 he was one of the permanent members of the Broadcast Jazz Big Band of Berlin. He founded and played in the Saxophon Sextett in the mid 60´s and not much later in the early 70s with his own Trio, together with Klaus Koch and Günter "Baby" Sommer. As he was on a concert tour in Cuba with this Trio in 1977, he visited a lot of music-sessions in Havana and Santiago de Cuba of many very famous afro cuban Jazz giants, like Chucho Valdes and Irakere, Grupo Monumental or Los Van Van. He felt so inspired by these tribal afro cuban & driving rhythms in the combination with Jazz, that he simply decided to write a song in this latin style in his own interpretation, when he is back in East Germany. In the year 1978 it was possible for him to record that unique piece of cuban jazz he wrote and that he called "Los Caribos", played in a different trio line-up ( Dieter Keitel-Drums & Reinhard Walter-Piano), and as a homage of an unforgetable and inspiring time, that he has spent in Cuba. Never before the afro cuban music influence and the exotique vibe was that well presented in an east german jazz tune. The B-side features a very different composer-side of Friedhelm Schönfeld, an astonishing deep cinematic drama jazz tune, with a strong new classical influence, which is way ahead for it´s time. Abstract formed drum-breaks meeting big string abysms, tension parts abd then again big gaps and the whole structure and atmosphere is presented in soundtrack vague chaser style and sounds quite futuristic for it´s time. The Black Pearl is more than proud to let all Afro-Cuban and Bossa-Jazz, and cinematic drama Jazz lovers, enjoy these unique East German Jazz tracks, that are released for the 1st time ever!