Rhythm and Flow
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CD Shorts
Thursday, December 17, 2009
By Advocate Staff
Tony Vacca and World Rhythms Ensemble:
Rhythm and Flow (World Rhythms)
This local legend eats, sleeps and breathes musical fusion, and the latest release from Tony Vacca and World Rhythms Ensemble doesn't disappoint those accustomed to his varied blend of West African percussion, jazz and unusual spoken-word. The third track, "Horn Funkadelic," is just what it purports to be: a funky sound trip featuring Tim Moran on saxophone. The 22-minute first track, "Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky/Baoule Dance Song," begins like something ambient you might hear in yoga class, and then builds to a high-energy jam with all of Vacca's familiar percussive elements. Vacca and his slate of skillful collaborators have created a masterfully played album in which saxophone meets djembe, English meets Amharic, and apparently, Vacca even meets a dragon: "In a dream I scale the wall of a fortress/ I slay a dragon guard/ I elude the demons of a sorceror/ I draw the tarot card marked love." "Amy Littlefield
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