AfroCubism

"Fourteen years after the celebrated sessions in Havana that gave rise to the Buena Vista Social Club, AfroCubism is a re-imagining of how that record might have sounded if the original idea of a collaboration between Malian and Cuban musicians had worked out ... World Circuit's two decade-plus exploration of the long history of musical exchange between Cuba and West Africa didn't necessarily guarantee the success of AfroCubism, but these players seem to have overcome considerable cultural differences and generated good chemistry together. If the ego issues that often beset such supergroups can be kept in check, this probably won't be their only outing".

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"It's the Cubans that form the basis of the sound, laying down the trademark Buena Vista Social Club shuffle - the brush of tres guitar against deft, polyrhythmic congas, double-bass keeping things ticking along - in and out of which the Malaians interlace their finest Cuban-inspired melodies".