Bolstered by the response to last summer’s vinyl 45 appearance of their Samba De Flores cover, Romero Bros return with an epic 12″ offering a longer experience of their club-friendly Latin-jazzy business. Indeed, the Sonidos De Otro Mundo (Sounds Of Another World) platter offers no fewer than seven such cuts. The release is book-ended by two different mixes of Samba De Flores, one by each brother (the Xavi Club Mix and the Remi 2025 Mix) both of which (despite the P-funky cover art) are mighty Latin-house-y if that’s your bent. Of the remainder, Gabriel and the Xavi Klub Mix of Always There are also, rather, Latin-house-y, The Remi Discoteca Paradiso mix of a cover of Eddie Henderson’s Prance On is nominally nu-(Latin)-disco but comes with a hefty side order of house (you may see a pattern emerging here) while Bete World offers a foray into uptempo broken beat and a cover of Milton Nascimento’s Cravo E Canela delivers an upbeat and even more uptempo foray into nu-jazz. Long-standing MB readers will know that the monkey has hitherto resisted being ‘housed’ by anyone and, well, this latest attempt hasn’t succeeded either. On the other hand, the monkey is well aware that certain readers have a penchant for the dark side (you know who you are!) and will be over the moon with this release which, whatever your musical tastes, one suspects will sell out rapidísimo.
(Out 2 May on Echo Chamber Recordings)
