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Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra

Review by Nick Neyland

Boca Negra is a slang term in Spanish, used to denote someone who is foul-mouthed or abusive. It’s also a type of cake. Somewhere »

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chicago underground duo are made up of rob mazurek (exploding star orchestra, isotope 217, mandarin movie) and chad taylor (fred anderson, iron anbd wine, marc ribot). 'boca negra' is the fifth release from the critically acclaimed chicago underground duo and eleventh release by the chicago underground collective. as with the previous four duo records it contains both composed and improvised music. the recording contains powerful grooves along with ambient sound structures , folk song simplicity and polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. it also combines high energy music with slow moving ballads. the cd version is presented in a 4 panel mini-lp style jacket.
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