Auntie Flo - "Die Bailando" (feat Eric Alejandro - original mix) - (13:01) 78 BPM
Esa - "Sabela De Cuba" (Afro Synth mix) - (5:45)
121 BPM Auntie Flo - "Mother Theresa" (original mix) - (5:56) 117 BPM
Esa - "Vitrales" (original mix) - (2:54) 74 BPM
Review: Early in 2014, Highlife regulars Auntie Flo and Esa traveled to Cuba to play at the country's biggest music festival. While there, they hooked up with a string of local vocalists and musicians to lay down the first installment of Highlife's World Series. Predictably, it's something of a triumph, with both artists gleefully joining the dots between Afro-influenced drum machine rhythms, traditional Cuban instrumentation and the kind of skewed synths that are such a feature of their work. Auntie Flo's effort is a 13-minute epic featuring the rambling vocals of Eric Eleindro and some snaking trumpet action. It's Esa who steals the show, though, with a dreamy, Balearic-minded cut that sounds like a contemporary update of Hugh Masekela's mid 1980s work.
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23 Mar 15
Disco/Nu-Disco