latin freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra-modern music. it was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching quatro or a spanish harlem dance-off, and it became the electronically constructed bridge between disco and house.
rich in ancestral flows, between ghana and europe, powered by deep, conga led rhythms and seductive warm horn riffs come jembaa groove, whose new album and newly rendered sound, reminds us that jazz, in its contemporary, soulful form is not just a london ting.
in with the old & out with the new.. for the second 7” on berends records, miss beulah joins the hippo brothers for don’t turn away. the b-side features the instrumental grab your hat.