Ayó

"Garifuna singer-songwriter-guitarist-bandleader, WOMEX winner and UNESCO Artist for Peace, Andy Palacio's tragic death at 47 was a searing cultural loss for the 300,000 African-Amerindian Garifuna people of Caribbean Central America and the inner-city US. But on the evidence of The Garifuna Collective's "Ayó", and their collaboration with Juno-nominated Canadian singer-songwriter Danny Michel (...), Garifuna music has much more to convey. These releases cultivate a fine contemporary edge while simultaneously taking the music ever deeper into African-Caribbean secular and spiritual traditions ... With its complex layered sound, rhythmic drive, creative soul and seamless flow, every song confirms the group's continued maturation".