Blazing, brassy early Latin jazz, the highlights are the Guatacando and Me Gusta El Son. These take up the majority of the album, and are the reason to get on board, full of frantic, messy, inventive stuff, exciting and hypnotic and right the fuck up in your face, embracing all of that contradiction. These dudes could play, and there's real live energy here, even if its a bit exhausting. Unfortunately, the intro is sloppy, Sabor Sabor drags despite some killer piano work, County Girl City Man derails when it should dovetail, and the Exit Theme never achieves much direction.
With the right filler in between the jams this could have been an incredible album, as it is, its a tough, messy, amazing listen, too much in places, too little in others, extremely impressive, sporadically enjoyable, full of potential and realization and missed opportunities; that's live music on the cutting edge for ya 3.5/5
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