Release Date: 28/04/2011

Released On:  Lovemonk


Rumba, new-rumba, rumba funk,  funky rumba,  rumba-electronica and re-creation rumba are all terms chucked about in the press release for Gitano Real.  Let’s get one thing clear: it might as well be written in Japanese because it’s all rumba rhubarb to these ears.  It matters not, however, because Txarly Brown Presents: Banda Achilifunk & Original Jazz Orquestra Taller De Musics (breathe) have cooked up an album that cannot fail to make you gyrate those hips in an embarrassing Cuban-Uncle-at-a-barbecue type way.  No word of a lie, this is one of the most fun albums you’ve ever heard, and if you think otherwise your idea of a wild night is presumably to mix half a spoon of caffeinated in with the decaf.

Track four Feeling would inspire John Major to undo his shirt down to the belt and stick his booty out.  I played this at a grubby Kingsland Road joint recently and while I spotted a few shared rolled eyes when it first came on, all pretensions were forgotten 30 seconds later with an eruption of Iberian growl, horns, percussion and whatever else it is that the Original Jazz Orquestra are chucking at the wall.  The track then continues at a frenetic pace before a final vocal spar between a male and a female, where they seem to be challenging the other to who can leave the biggest mark on the track.  They both win.  Find this song.  Play it at Parties.  If people don’t dance to it throw and drink over them and make them leave.

The Vulture opens with a Mohican wail and that’s all there is to say about that, whilst the title trick has harmonies, trumpet interludes and a lolloping beat and a Shaft-style interlude before the final chorus that’ll make the most miserable bastard strut their way across a rum and blood splattered dancefloor.

Speaking of blood on dancefloors (pardon the tenous link) the album ends on an instrumental version of Jacko’s Bad, driven by an organ that sounds like it should have been on the original. It’s a bit of a departure from the rest of the album but is a nice touch and is the track to play to anyone that doubts whether they’ll like this big fat rumba punch.  After that though, wind it all the way back and start again as there’s much more fun to be had beforehand.


7.5/10




 

Posted In Album Reviews, Apr 27 2011. Words - David