"Neither today nor ever before has there been a salsa group quite like Bio Ritmo. The group plays, unmistakably, with the beat and attitude of '70s-era salsa dura (hard salsa). But the conventionality stops there. With a roster that includes former rastas, punks, rockers, and jazzistas, Bio-Ritmo can't help but bring an exhilarating unorthodoxy to its music. Take "Dina's Mambo,"from a new 45 RPM release on Electric Cowbell records, for example. On top of the underlying salsa beat, it contains slinky cinematic soul, a deliciously cheesy organ, a baroque sounding synth, giant bullfight fanfare horn shouts, Afrobeat-tinged breakdowns, and some delicious instrumental solos." WNYC, GIG ALERTS
