Yelfris Valdes

Yelfris Valdes: For The Ones

by Phillip Woolever
October 29, 2019

The encouraging trend of unique, full-length debut albums featuring a mix of true jazz traditions and updated global abstractions continues with this exceptional release. Available on vinyl or digitally, this energetic hybrid offers a scintillating selection of Valdes' Cuban influences melded with electronics, trance and a range of themes crossing from Africa and the Middle East to the London club scene. Atypical instruments create cosmic sprinkles of percolating percussion; the project is an appropriate bookend to Christian Scott ...