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| Cracked Latin: The Love Child of Syd Barrett and Tito Puente? Woven thicker than a Mayan quilt smeared with toad venom, mixing pre-Castro cha-cha, Latin rock, and American pop/soul with a heavy dose of late-'60s psychedelia, Cracked Latin's first release, 'The World Is Cracked Latin, ' out November 10 from Transparency, is a joyous abundance of Spanglished compass-spinning. The music is at once instantly catchy, hook-driven and totally uncategorizable. "I'm not so sure that you're really not here, " Lane Steinberg and Luis Accorsi sing over the spicy, horn-driven aural stew on the album's "My Hallucination." Watch the trippy remade/remodeled video (the tongue-in-cheek tags are worth a read on their own) here: Before the duo joined forces, Lane already had a long career in the pop field, founding the cult Miami pop/soul combo The Wind and also recording as Noel Coward's Ghost, Wall of Orchids and Mustafio, and in collaboration with Tan Sleeve and R. Stevie Moore. Luis found youthful fame in Venezuela with the Latin rock outfit Jainz Kapella, and now records solo and with Man's Laughter when he is not painting. Cracked Latin's music came to life as Luis and Lane spent leisurely afternoons over numerous double and triple espressos, listening to and admiring a cache of old Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco records. "Is this a Hindu whorehouse or just the Vatican? / Are you an Inca warrior at the taco stand?" the duo ask on the track "We Are Cracked Latin!" If you can answer those questions with any degree of conviction, you are probably Cracked Latin yourself. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |