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With their unique blend of Latin music, hip-hop, R&B, and pop, Yerba
Buena made a big splash with their debut album, PRESIDENT ALIEN. While avoiding Rock en Espanol cliches, the follow-up, ISLAND LIFE, boasts a pan-Latin sound that bespeaks the musicians' familiarity with the traditions of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and more. The pace is generally frenetic throughout the album, and the vibe a steamy one, as percussion, horns, and guitar vie for attention on one percolating, polyrhythmic workout after another. Unlike many Latin acts that have made the crossover to a wider audience, Yerba Buena never seems to be pandering to the gringo market. Only a couple of tracks, the suggestive "Sugar Daddy" and the equally salacious "Bilingual Girl," feature English-language vocals, and there are no tacky rock trappings grafted on. The eclecticism of ISLAND LIFE depends most heavily on the
aforementioned variety of Latin musical roots, though there are
undercurrents of funk, reggae and, at one point, a bit of Fela Kuti-style Afrobeat. Uncompromising but completely accessible, ISLAND LIFE moves further down the inroads Yerba Buena made with PRESIDENT ALIEN.
Yerba Buena: Andres Levin (guitar, keyboards).
Additional personnel: Peret (vocals, acoustic guitar); El Cigala, Fulanito, Joe Bataan, Orishas, Ajay Naidu, Celia Cruz (vocals); Les Nubians, M1 (rap vocals); John Leguizamo, Montse Cortés, Rossy DePalma (spoken vocals); El Nino Josele (acoustic guitar); Ile Aiye (percussion).
Island Life Music | List Price | $16.98 (You save $2.83) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, World CDs, International, Latin, Reggae, Salsa/Tropical, Alternative Latin | | Label | Razor & Tie | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  52457  | | CD Universe Part number | 6866997 | | Catalog number | 82942 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 26, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Andres Levin | | Personnel | Andres Levin - guitar, keyboards
Also: Celia Cruz, Les Nubians, Joe Bataan, John Leguizamo, Fulanito, M1, Orishas, Ile Aiye, Ajay Naidu, Ajay Naidu, El Cigala, El Nino Josele, Peret, Montse Cortes, Ile Aye, Rossy De Palma |
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PRESIDENT ALIEN was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album.
Yerba Buena, a Latin/urban fusion project spearheaded by Andres Levin (who's worked with crossover artists ranging from Arto Lindsay to Tia Carrere), isn't too much more than the sum of its parts. Fortunately, however, those parts are certainly astonishing enough to create a breathtaking record capable of hooking fans from some wide-ranging styles: hip-hop, trance, R&B, and of course, Latin music. Comprised mostly of Cubans or natives ...
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