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By Omar Sosa

Label: Ota Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: A Love Lost; Momento I; 4U; Mentiras Enigmas (Enemy Lies); Momento II; D Vuelta (The Return); Old Afro A Baba; Dame La Luz (Give Me Light); Momento III; Sad Meeting; Momento IV; La Tarde; Mi Conga; A Love Lost Reprise (To My Late Mother).

Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano: ilé

by Dan Bilawsky
April 6, 2015

"The word ilé, from the Lucumí tradition of Cuba, means home, earth." That single sentence, which gets the ball rolling for Omar Sosa's self-penned liner notes, says all that needs to be said about this return-to-roots project. Or does it? Ilé finds Sosa looking back to Camagüey, Cuba. He populates this album with ...