Review: Forge and Franck's Da Lata ensemble return with emphatic aplomb. There's some real energy behind this re-emergence, too - just listen to the thundering drum breakbeats on the opener "Um Amor A Mais" and you'll hear their newfound full force. Elsewhere we get smoky as the horns spiral reflectively on the downtempo dreamer "Places", we get all shifty and Shafty as "Monkeys And Anvils" pays homage to 70s Blacksploitation funk and we swoon madly to the Sacha Gabriel's beautiful vocals on the Latino-boogie soul shocker "The Shore". Fusing the most enduring Afro-Brazilian elements with timeless panache, this will remain on heavy rotation, guaranteed.
Review: Mop Mop's voodoo jazz island concept undergoes a huge 15-part reconstruction process from artists vast and varied. Like the original album itself, the energy and pace flickers intemperately from euphoric steel drum emotional meltdowns (Simbad's dub of "Kamakumba") to off-beat new jazz showdowns (SoulParlor's remix of "Heritage") to crazed frenetic voodoo footwork fusion (Clap Clap's remix of "Let I Go"). Yet as disparate and disjointed as some of these sound, each reversion relates to the last with the same creative sense of subversive consistency as the original album. Welcome to Isle Of Magic - you know there's no return, right?
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