Rezos

Bobi Cespedes - Rezos

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Artist: Bobi Cespedes
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-02-04
Music Label: Six Degrees
Soundtracks:
  1. Rezos
  2. Obatala
  3. California
  4. Como Te Extra?o
  5. Lenu
  6. Yambu Rock
  7. Anoche
  8. Awoyo
  9. Nuevo Milenio
  10. Ogun

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Free Music Review: Afro-Cuban charged action
Hit: 4 Stars

Take Afro-Cuban singing and drumming, mix in an almost hiphop modern element, add a rich voice in Bobi Cespedes - equally able at presenting rap, Latin, jazz and soul influences - and you have a work difficult to categorize and quite compelling in REZOS.
?Not quite for the completely modern listener but more than its Afro-Cuban roots, REZOS is packed with charged action, blending jazzy riffs and Cuban traditions with reggae, hiphop, and electronic drumbeats.

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The term old school means different things to different people. For singer-percussionist Bobi C?spedes, who is a Yoruba-Lucami priest, it means going all the way back to 400-year-old African religious and musical traditions. C?spedes herself grew up in Cuba, but immigrated to San Francisco 40 years ago and has spent many years performing on her own and with Mickey Hart's Planet Drum. Here, on her long-overdue debut, she draws upon a broad swath of history, mining the Afro-Cuban traditions and ancient chants that are dedicated to her patron saint Orisha. Nonetheless, she is also very much in the here and now, creating some hot salsa-style arrangements, hip-hop beats, and modern Bay Area grooves that wouldn't be out of place in one of the hipper clubs in San Francisco or Paris. The album is an all-inclusive, multicultural, multigenerational approach that is winning. It also points out that a highly developed sense of tradition need not be an overriding burden. --Tad Hendrickson
Bobi C?spedes is a singer, composer and percussionist as well as a priestess in the Yoruba-Lucumi spiritual tradition. Her solo debut couples deep Afro-Cuban and Yoruban grooves with one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in world music.

Bobi has been gathering acclaim both with her 12-piece ensemble Conjunto C?spedes and as a featured vocalist with Mickey Hart's Planet Drum and Bemb? Orisha bands. Produced by Greg Landau (Susanna Baca and Patato) Rezos marks the solo debut of an emerging global diva.

"Bobi's voice is an instrument equally capable of summoning orisha and filling dance floors"-Folk Roots Magazine

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