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  • Summary: The 19-track collection of 1970s music from the Northern Brazilian city of Belem was curated by Samy Ben Redjeb and Carlo Xavier.
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  • Record Label: Analog Africa
  • Genre(s): Latin, International, African Traditions, Brazilian Traditions, Afro-Brazilian, Cumbia, Afro-Colombian
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
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  1. Q Magazine
    Jun 24, 2019
    80
    This 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]
  2. Jun 24, 2019
    80
    The 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.
  3. Aug 15, 2019
    80
    The 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.
  4. Jun 24, 2019
    80
    The 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.
  5. Uncut
    Jun 24, 2019
    80
    Jambu is the best starting point, a genuinely revelatory voyage through the mythic sounds of the Amazon. [Aug 2019, p.90]
  6. Mojo
    Jun 25, 2019
    80
    Jambu captures Belem's delirious party spirit in full swing. [Aug 2019, p.108]
  7. The Wire
    Jul 11, 2019
    70
    Brassy 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]
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