Bio Ritmo - Dina's Mambo / La Muralla

Quickly approaching their 20 year anniversary, Bio Ritmo is a one of a kind phenomenon in today’s hard-bitten indie salsa world – a band with both a healthy adventurous streak and a solid underpinning of authentic sabor criollo. In a rather hostile environment that makes getting gigs difficult and playing this type of music more a labour of love and endeavor of pure artistic expression than a simply commercial pursuit, Bio Ritmo continue to delight and amaze with both their talent and longevity, consistently pushing the envelope, tearing down walls between categories and defying pigeonholes. ‘Dina's Mambo’ is a slab of tropical funk that showcases the band's playful instrumental side but also reveals a muscular cinematic swagger. Consequently there is a pleasingly Persian flavour to the proceedings (in keeping with the band’s previous leanings towards minor-key tunings), as well as tasty hints of progressive Afro-Cuban funk of the 70s by the likes of Los Van Van and Chucho Valdes’ Irakere. B-Side ‘La Muralla’ is a seemingly straight-up salsa dance track with a dark underpinning that makes for goose-pimple grooving at the same time.

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