Acuarela del Caribe
by John Storm RobertsLike his great Zarabanda album, Chirino's new one superbly exploits the riches of the Miami sound, which stem from a true verbal and musical bilingualism. The opener is just staggering: a kind of mad medley veering between típico and rock; between (literally) Sergeant Pepper's and "Purple Haze" and "Son de la Loma."