Anyone who likes Cesaria Evora or Omara Portuondo will surely enjoy this album, with its broken Latina voices and jazzy piano interludes, but this album comes with some great African choral stuff too. One standout track -
Oiaymeló- starts at 9:10:-
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Alé Kumá is a contemporary afro-Colombian formation, founded in 2002 by contrabassist Leonardo Gómez. They started an invaluable research on their roots that evolved into a meeting between urban and traditional musicians and became the new approach to afro-Colombian music.
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