Da Lata - Fabiola (2013)
Da Lata - Fabiola
World, Afrobeat, Latin Jazz, Funk | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 41:53 min | 101 MB
Label: Agogo Records | Tracks: 10 | Rls.date: 2013-10-22
World, Afrobeat, Latin Jazz, Funk | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 41:53 min | 101 MB
Label: Agogo Records | Tracks: 10 | Rls.date: 2013-10-22
If this world-fusion outfit had opened their long-awaited new album with the ghastly third-rate funk-rock track that closes it, your reviewer would have instantly pressed the eject button and you wouldn’t be reading this.
Fortunately, everything else here is either acceptable (in a mid-period Morcheeba way) or engaging (in a Talking Heads “Burning Down the House” way). But then Da Lata have been carefully constructing Afrobeat-meets-samba grooves folding in a bit of hip-hop, psychedelia and electronica as they go for 20 years now, so they should know what they’re doing.
Not groundbreaking but pleasant enough, and certainly benefiting from a shift from rigid programmed grooves to supple live playing.
TRACKLIST
01 Um Amor A Mais feat. Luisa Maita
02 N.Y.J. feat. Diabel Cissokho
03 Places We Go feat. Dennis Rollins
04 Unknown feat. Mayra Andrade
05 Ronco Da Cuica feat. Jandira Silva & Pedro Martins
06 Monkeys And Anvils feat. Rich Medina
07 Deixa feat. Jandira Silva
08 The Shore feat. Sacha Gabriel
09 Cambara 41 feat. Marcelo Jeneci
10 Don't Give It Up feat. Luiz Gabriel & Fabricio FBC