Da Lata - Birds '2019

Tracks list

Da Latas highly anticipated fourth album Birds is a genre busting journey
through London Afro-Brazilian soul music. The most homogeneous Da Lata record to
date, Christian Franck has honed his craft and expanded his art to create a
glowing testimony from the melting pot of the capitals musical life. Gathering
his family of collaborators with diverse musical backgrounds in soul,jazz,and
gospel as well as African and Brazilian forms, Birds is an album that finally
lays waste to that tired idea of World music. There are tracks that are inspired
by Chris journeys to the source, there are elegant horn and woodwind
arrangements recorded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, there are lyrics in different
tongues, but this is a London record. 

Birds is an album of warm organic grooves infused with sophisticated funkiness
and splattered with instrumental colour. From the Afro skank swagger of the low
slung opener Mentality to the Beatles-esque pathos of the closing title track,
its a record packed with soulful surprises and beguiling rhythms. The sound is
both intimate and expansive, drawing the listener into Da Latas London
tropicalia and out into the cosmos. Birds is an album about keeping doors open
and conversation flowing, its about survival, hope, family, resistance,
awareness, unity and love.

Tracklist:
01. Da Lata; Diabel Cissokho - Mentality (3:51)
02. Da Lata - Dakar (3:08)
03. Da Lata; Vanessa Freeman - Sway (4:31)
04. Da Lata; Syren Rivers - Memory Man (4:14)
05. Da Lata; Adriana Vasques - To B (3:41)
06. Da Lata; Richard Collins - Lunar View (4:18)
07. Da Lata; Bémbé Ségué - Thunder Of Silence (3:43)
08. Da Lata - Oba Lata (4:42)
09. Da Lata - Hollickwood Park (1:37)
10. Da Lata; Luiz gabriel lopes - Birds (4:10)

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