5 STAR REVIEW ! ALBUM OF THE WEEK: SNOW OWL: NORMAS -- Review by Raul da Gama
It is apocryphal that you can take the Colombian out of the Cumbia, but you can never take the Cumbia out of the Colombian. Thus the now-Austrian-based Colombian bassist Juan García-Herreros has been endowed with the infinite beauty of Colombian rhythms even as he bends and stretches these and melding them with the swirling and swaggering Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and further, with the exciting elasticity of jazz.
See more at: http://latinjazznet.com/2014/03/24/features/album-of-the-week/juan-garcia-herreros-the-snow-owl-normas/
It is apocryphal that you can take the Colombian out of the Cumbia, but you can never take the Cumbia out of the Colombian. Thus the now-Austrian-based Colombian bassist Juan García-Herreros has been endowed with the infinite beauty of Colombian rhythms even as he bends and stretches these and melding them with the swirling and swaggering Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and further, with the exciting elasticity of jazz.
See more at: http://latinjazznet.com/2014/03/24/features/album-of-the-week/juan-garcia-herreros-the-snow-owl-normas/