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Uptown Magazine, CD Review >>
This Toronto quintet is one of Canada's best-loved afro-beat combos and now four albums into its career comes the fabulous Shine Your Face, which will most assuredly please fans of the genre. With heaven-sent horn arrangements and topical lyrics the band holds true to the estimable track laid by early originators like Fela Kuti. The standard, low rumbling percussive Afro-beat rhythms are in full flow right from the opening track The Antidote and it only gets better from there. Singer Johan Hultqvist's voice is as sweet as molasses and at times it almost seems that it could stand a bit more gravitas to sound completely convincing for this music. Jazz fans will enjoy the bands ability to shift tempo and mix up the arrangements in a super creative way. Proof positive that high school music programs in this country deliver some awesome horn players if nothing else. Definitely worth a listen.
— Jeff Monk 01/21/10 >> go there
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