THE GRAMOPHONE ALLSTARS - Levitant A La Deriva - LP

Levitant a la deriva could be considered a milestone in The Gramophone Allstars career. If their two previous albums were a look at Jazz from Jamaican music, now their focus opens up and the band takes a look at Black music in a wide sense, without ever stepping out of the little Caribbean island. It’s a much more eclectic and ambitious album where styles are fanned out and Jazz gives way to many other rhythms. Their referents go from Omara Portuondo to Erykah Badu including Curtis Mayfeld i The Skatalites. In other words: bolero, latin jazz, funk, groove, neosoul ska, rocksteady and reggae. Warm, hot music that caresses the listener with its rhythms and its harmony. And we do not only find this colour palette in the versions, but it also coats their own themes, composed specially by different members of the band. Levitant a la deriva is also a daring and singular disc, because of the lyrics which, either in Catalan or English, avoid the usual topics.