- Record Label: Analog Africa
- Release Date: Jun 21, 2019
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Aug 15, 2019The first dozen times through, I had trouble making sense of the overloaded midrange and upper register: the horns, guitars, call-and-response vocals, and insistent shakers and maracas. But eventually, it all settles into place, yielding both a rich diversity of complementary styles.
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MojoJun 25, 2019Jambu captures Belem's delirious party spirit in full swing. [Aug 2019, p.108]
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UncutJun 24, 2019Jambu is the best starting point, a genuinely revelatory voyage through the mythic sounds of the Amazon. [Aug 2019, p.90]
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Jun 24, 2019The result is a collection that transports you to place and time you’d probably never get to otherwise, rocks your body, feeds your curiosity and makes you feel at home. Well done, I’d say.
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Q MagazineJun 24, 2019This cracking 19-track collection, plus extensive 24-page booklet, cherry-picks the area's best club music from the mid-'70s, an exuberant, carnival-esque mishmash of local carimbo and siria styles with big-band brass and frenetic Afro-Latino percussion. [Summer 2019, p.119]
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Jun 24, 2019The sound on this set is better than many other volumes in the series. And of course, the music is unassailable in both choice and presentation.
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The WireJul 11, 2019Brassy and direct, it looked north and west, toward the coastal Caribbean and into the forest. Kicking carimbó, bangué, siriá and other up-country sounds are ably documented on Jambú. [Aug 2019, p.67]