“Montreal’s AFILAO take on jazz classic “All the Things You Are” with a bold take that’s equal parts mind-bender and hip-shaker. Fusing latin jazz with Afro-Cuban, the group’s smooth horns and expressive piano contextualize the twisty, confounding rhythms, which add progressive time signatures to Timba (a mix of Afro-Cuban, salsa and funk). In the best way possible, AFILAO’s cover renders the original obsolete, as it sounds unlike any version before and likely afterwards.”
“Utilizing skills behind the aforementioned timbales from Michel Medrano Brindis, cajón from Hanser Santos Gómez, and congas from Arturo Zegarra, the group has masterful percussive licks. When those elements are tied to bassist Juan Pablo Carmona’s licks and Nestor Rodríguez Vilardell tenor saxophone playing, you get a real sense of the amount of rumination that can exist on a Afro-Cuban jazz record.”