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rhythmagic orchestra - rhythmagic orchestra - impossible ark records - vinyl

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Genre: Jazz

1. African Mailman
2. Cha Cha Juventud
3. Tiajuana
4. Afrodisia
5. Fish Market Dance
6. Sekeena
7. Afreaka
8. Gulli Gulli
9. Manteca

The Rhythmagic Orchestra is a collaboration between acclaimed jazz producer Benedic Lamdin aka Nostalgia 77 and Hugo Mendez of tropical music collective Sofrito, based on their shared love of jazz, Afro-Cuban, Latin and tropical sounds.

The band comprised a young crop of London’s finest jazz musicians and a team of Cuban percussionists. Comprising members of the Nostalgia 77 Octet, the Alex Wilson Band, Jazz Jamaica, the Heliocentrics and Ska Cubano, together the players combine years of experience with innumerable jazz and Latin greats, and had the chops to lay down a session that would have made the dancers at the Palladium ballroom proud. The finished album features a selection of classics of the jazz and Latin canon from the ’50s, with new compositions that stand up proudly alongside. Paying tribute to the giants of Afro-Cuban jazz like Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Machito; combining traditional arrangements with Cuban bata drums and a fresh outlook on the Latin jazz sound, all cooked up in 21st century London, the album continues a great musical tradition and adds its own flavour to the melting pot of jazz and non-western music.