Chico Mann – Mentirosos
For those of you who don’t know Chico Mann is a long-time member of the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. You certainly catch some of that afro-beat feel on several tracks (of which “Mentirosos” is my current fave) on this new album “Analog Drift” but much of it is squarely in a very interesting latin+electro style. Not having heard much of his solo work, I don’t know what I was expecting, but the whole record has been a pleasant surprise, including the fact that it’s put out by Wax Poetics.