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Urban Caribbean
Yerba Buena
| USA
After attending one of their earliest showcases in New York, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times hailed Yerba Buena as "one of New York’s best new dance bands, mixing up the Latin boogaloo of the 60’s, Cuban religious music, some American soul and Fela-like Afrobeat. It’s a history of the transmission of Yoruban culture in a nutshell, and it’s a good party."
“a joyful, ever-evolving, border-hopping groove” – New York Times
“a sizzling jam session” – Wall St. Journal
"…the future sound of Afro-Latin Urban America” –
Interview Magazine
"Yerba Buena takes Afro-Latin fusion to new heights…surprising and fresh new sound" –
Los Angeles Times
"… a musicologist's dream” – New York Times
All the critics seem to be rooting for Yerba Buena to hit it big with their latest release, Follow Me (Wrasse). Cutting a bigger slice of the demographic pie (cumbia, boogaloo, afrobeat, hiphop), these creolized New Yorkers remain an urban Latin party band to be reckoned with, with an all-star guest roster and a geographically shifty palette of worldgrooves, masterminded by guitarrist/ producer/ composer Andres Levin.
“Andres Levin has emerged as the master chef of urban fusion” – Los Angeles Times
Along with Andres 2 Cuban lead singers are the founding members and backbone of Yerba buena. The charismatic female vocalist Cucu Diamantes is also responsible for composing many of the songs. And Pedro Martinez whose soultry vocals and mastery of afrolatin percussión complete the yerba buena sound. The trio is acompanied by an ever evolving cast of New Yorks best musicians. Master Violinist Alfredo de la Fe. Drummers Mauricio Herrera and Skoota Warner Bassists Panagiotis Andreou and Sebastián Steinberg etc. A musical collective with the spirit of a gipsy caravan Yerba Buena’s acclaimed live shows are known as an ultimate urban tropical party.
"NYC's most combustible Afro-Latin dance group, Levín may well ignite the first U.S. urban Latino music revolution since the 1970s. The addictive combination of Nigerian Afrobeat, East Coast hip-hop, Nuyorican boogaloo, and Afro-Cuban... gets only more potent live” – Village Voice.
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