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Omar Sosa: Bembón
by AAJ Staff
Try to pin Omar Sosa down, and he'll wriggle away. The styles Sosa uses for composition encompass sounds from all over the Americas and Africa. The Cuban pianist relocated in 1995 to the San Francisco Bay area, where he recruited his working quintet. But in order to make Bembón, Sosa took his group on the road to Quito, Ecuador. Quito was not necessarily the best choice for music production, from the practical standpoint--but it offered total immersion in Ecuadoran culture. ...
Continue ReadingOmar Sosa: Prietos
by AAJ Staff
Something of a high priest of African-American music, Cuban pianist Omar Sosa has a direct link to the spirits. He collects an international cadre of musicians to channel this higher energy into recorded form on Prietos. The result: a sprawling disc which explores idioms from West Africa, South America, Cuba, and the United States. While Sosa appears content to explore an idiom in its simplest and most direct form, he generally prefers to mix things up. You might hear a ...
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