Perhaps the greatest thing about being a past-mastering outfit is that it is nearly impossible to run out of inspiration. For their latest release, Brooklyn's brilliant Truth and Soul label — a sibling of sorts to the mighty Daptone Records — relocated to a makeshift studio in San Juan, Puerto Rico with a clutch of young, James Brown-worshipping in-house session players and older Puerto Rican salsa legends. The result is one of the year's more entrancing retro-soul releases, an immensely satisfying album full of rhythm and grace.

Bronx River Parkway originally came together at an impromptu jam session some six years ago, and that lively, improvisational feel has not dulled. "Song for Ray" is driven by a hypnotic horn section call-and-response, while "La Valla" marches forward with a heavy drum break and thudding piano before a resounding line of horns and chattering singers takes over. Especially stunning is "Mi Corazon," a quiet moment of elegant soul which sounds like the El Michels Trio backing a Fania legend's tear-jerking encore.