press

Press Coverage of debut CD "CACHAITO"
(World Circuit Records)

"The most exciting record to come out of Havana in a long time"- The Times

"a hugely rewarding adventure" -Q Magazine

"One of the funniest, most good-humoured albums to come along for a while. It has the breezy spirit of a Sunday-afternoon jazz workshop blow from another planet "-The Guardian

"like the haunting soundtrack for an imaginary film….the album as a whole hangs together magnificently as a portrait of an extraordinary contemporary Cuban musician" - Ronnie Scott's magazine

"daring musical departures….a masterwork"- What's On

"In its eccentric vision I think it may be something of a small masterpiece"-Get Rhythm

"A musician of immense openness" -The Guardian

" a record that surprise with its musical variety and rhythmic imagination "- ECO, Spain

"His own unique music on a weird and wonderful debut album"- Musikmarkt, Germany

"Nothing less than a funk and hiphop rereading of popular Cuban music" -Le Figaro

"A high-flying exercise, fizzing with ideas and invention". - Le Monde

"a great jazz record, somewhat intoxicated and very exciting, mixing Cuban syncopations with jazzy improvisations". - A Nous Paris

"an astonishing mixture of country roots, jazz influences, dub, soul and hip-hop" - L'Humanité

"Are we witnessing the emergence of a new salsa giant?" - Telerama, Paris

"Unequivocably Cuban, but genuinely contemporary" - El Pais, Spain

" a magnificent record, that makes the link between the great work of the Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino with the tremendous descargas of Cachao. And siempre son swing"- Rockola, Spain

"one of the greatest works ever recorded by a Cuban musician?" - Batoncal, Spain

"a sophisticated but at the same time instantly accessible, direct and complex record. For me among the best records I have heard in the new century'" -Gúia del Ocio, Spain

"Poised, passionate and simply stunning, it's a genuine modern diaspora masterpiece"-Baltimore City Paper, USA

" A free-range, continent-straddling big idea."
- Miami New Times

" a gorgeous, mixed-up masterpiece"- Bob Tarte

"Unique, fresh, interesting and masterful" - NOVA, Australia

"Music that you can't catalogue" - Primera Fila, Mexico