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"This exquisite recording finds one of the most gifted percussionists in Latin music today working in what is perhaps his true element - the Santeria liturgy. The spiritual power of this Afro-Caribbean religious ceremony, sung in Yoruba to the accompaniment of a three-man percussion bata is awesome, but it is the intense articulation of rhythm that makes this music so devastating, incredible." -JD Considine, Musician Magazine "A wonderful album - absorbing, mesmerizing, beautiful and fun, graceful and sensual. It draws ou into a space and reality all it's own, with a mood and flow quite distant from the everyday and yet hauntingly familiar. I found myself playing it over and over..." - City Paper (Washington DC) "Is a stone soul picnic, so party down. If you're going to buy one record this summer, here is one that, in the words of Hebrew National, answers to a higher authority." - Glenn O'Brien, Interview

Review

"This exquisite recording finds one of the most gifted percussionists in Latin music today working in what is perhaps his true element -- the Santeria liturgy. The spiritual power of this Afro-Caribbean religious ceremony, sung in Yoruba to the accompaniment of a three-man percussion bata is awesome, but it's the intense articulation of rhythm that makes this music so devastating, incredible." -- J.D. Considine, Musician Magazine

"This record has the impact and immediacy of a session of the Fania All Stars performing inside the Vatican for the Pope. I assure you that the image is not far removed from the perimeters of this music's soul. A must recording for anyone wanting to deepen appreciation of the Afro-Latin musical heritage as a living force in American religious and pop music" -- Option