Gig Alert: Bio-Ritmo
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Bio-Ritmo (Courtesy of the band.)
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Neither today nor ever before has there been a salsa group quite like Bio-Ritmo. The group plays, unmistakably, with the beat and attitude of '70s-era salsa dura (hard salsa). But the conventionality stops there. With a roster that includes former rastas, punks, rockers, and jazzistas, Bio-Ritmo can’t help but bring an exhilarating unorthodoxy to its music. Take “Dina’s Mambo,” from a new 45 RPM release on Electric Cowbell records, for example. On top of the underlying salsa beat, it contains slinky cinematic soul, a deliciously cheesy organ, a baroque sounding synth, giant bullfight fanfare horn shouts, Afrobeat-tinged breakdowns, and some delicious instrumental solos. If you miss the SOBs show, don't worry--they'll be burning up Zebulon on Saturday alongside bugalu masters Spanglish Fly.
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