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THE BOSTON GLOBE
A Multicolored revolucion
May 30, 2007
Jose Conde and Ola Fresca
Cuban-American vocalist Jose Conde is both the lead singer and writer of the arrangements for his New York City based band, Ola Fresca. That helps explain how the 14 tracks on the band’s eclectic new album, ‘Revolucion’, can at once honor the propulsive requirements of the Afro-Cuban form while displaying, in their lyrics and musical choices, a singer-songwriter’s individuality and trademark whimsy. The program stretches broadly across the greater Caribbean basin, blending multiple styles (son, mambo, salsa but also cumbia, soca, reggae, and several flavors of funk) in a statement of roots connections that edges on occasion toward the didactic but recovers by grace of its sheer musical affability.
- Boston Globe
NEW YORK POST
“(R)Evolucion busts past musical boundaries and makes listeners get up and dance. It will have you shaking that booty, for sure.”
- New York Post
NEW YORK TIMES
May 17th 2007
“Conde’s vocal understatement is unusual. He formulates an Afro-Cuban music with an emphasis on songs with characters, wordplay and mild social ideas and brings together son, with New Orleans funk, Nigerian Afrobeat, James Brown rhythms, Haitian compas, New York City boogaloo and even jam-band stuff.”
- NY Times
BILLBOARD ALL MUSIC GUIDE
“Brilliant. Thrilling. The groove never stops.”
- Billboard
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