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Zemog El Gallo Bueno
"Cama De La Conga"
On his second outing as bandleader, Abraham Gomez-Delgado sets further fire to the Latin styles he explored on their self-titled debut. The outspoken Puerto Rico native views his craft as sonic stained glass, meticulously discriminating in execution and format. Cama De La Conga, Delgados tongue-in-cheek play on his chill out conga and backwards Latin music, is anything but sedated. Even when at a slower BPM, as on La Costilla, his rock en Espanol signatures appear in the form of wailing guitars and blazing tenor saxophones. The entire record is a similar sojourn, navigating Cuba, Puerto Rico and Venezuela in a hodgepodge experiment. For the most part, his collaborations work, though his voice grating, slightly harsh, does add rough noise tht is hard to avoid. Yet when it emerges above the flamenco guitar on the beautiful Maltida Cancion, the duende of this artist shines. If Frank Zappa and Mike Patton had a young cousin, his name would certainly be Gomez backwards, of course. 02/27/06
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