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Ayom: SaLiVa review – a fierce, devotional celebration, from Brazil to Cape Verde
This unusually diverse band bring together samba, accordion, stabs of brass and muscular percussion on a spiritually weighty second album
Its members are drawn from Brazil, Angola, Italy and Greece, and are united by a love of mysticism centred on the Candomblé religion and the cultural exchange of the “black Atlantic”. This second album is a confident evolution from their self-titled 2020 debut, overseen by the noted Brazilian producer Guilherme Kastrup, and adding discreet electronica to their acoustic approach. It comes with a weighty concept – sagrado(sacred), liberdade(freedom) and valentia(courage) – that adds up to SaLiVa, the water on everyone’s lips.
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