(noticia) Ojos de Brujo: Girando Bari

Posted: 2006-02-03, By Nils Jacobson

Ojos de Brujo
Girando Bari (Touring Bari)
Diquela Records
2005

Ojos de Brujo may explode, implode or simply vaporize, depending on the vagaries of market forces and the challenges of keeping a collective alive, but one thing I can guarantee you with 100% certainty: this band will never sell out. Pop music icons sometimes do fall to temptation—Snoop Dogg has been hawking Chrysler and Flava Flav is pushing Miller Lite—but these Spanish outcats are not for sale. Period. Ojos de Brujo belong to themselves, not the Man.

Girando Bari (which means both “Touring” and “Spinning Bari”) presents the Barcelona collective in performance at home and on the road, playing pieces from their 2004 international debut, Bari, and more. Building upon the home-grown sounds of flamenco that run in their blood, Ojos de Brujo (”Eyes of the Wizard”) have thrown the doors wide open to hip-hop, funk, rumba, punk, Indian music, and various other rhythm-intensive sounds.

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