With their big band arrangements, the group evokes the Latin jazz spirit of Duke Ellington and the energy of the “King of Mambo” Pérez Prado. A dozen musicians from the USA and Cuba were involved in the first Spanish language album on soul label Daptone Records.
Whoever is giving his band a five-part French name, while referring to a Dadaist who died 50 years ago, has a message: what we are doing is art. Fortunately, the 14-man band, who calls their style “Afropunkpopexperimentaljazz”, never forgets the grooves
