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Article: No sound barriers _ Yerba Buena delivers an infectious blend.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2005
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Byline: Jim Abbott
It used to be accurate to call Yerba Buena's music Afro-Cuban, but the band transcends that label on its second album, "Island Life."
Latin rhythms rub shoulders with funk, gypsy, hip-hop, reggaeton, flamenco, rock and other assorted influences to yield a most infectious world music _ a sound that band leader Andres Levin says ultimately sounds like New York.
Levin and his wife and collaborator, CuCu Diamantes, moved from the West Village to the East Village last year. It opened new musical possibilities.
"Yerba Buena could not be the way it is, not in any other city," Levin says, his quiet voice a contrast to the ...