24/10/2003 John Fordham, The Guardian,

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“...[their] speciality is rhythmic experimentation, and the pieces exploited the tensions, embraces and collisions between the guitar and Leo Taylor's brittle, asymmetrical drum patterns, Tom Herbert's anchoring bass grooves, Nick Ramm's bursts of Cuban-piano cheerleading and Barak Schmool's thoughtful alto-sax lines. Vocalist Maurizio Ravalico gave the music an impassioned gravity, negotiating the treacherous tempos with stabbing hand movements that seemed like guidelines to himself as much as the audience. Slowly the set developed into a fascinating accumulation of a kind of African hi-life bebop, Joe Zawinul's world jazz and cutting-edge Buena Vista improv...”

01/10/1999 Neil Bennun, Straight No Chaser,

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“This is a family affair: a battery of fully-qualified batá drummers, with guitar, bass, keyboards, sax, a percussion-playing choir or singers and an approach to time signatures owing a little to Steve Coleman's New York future funk making a seriously deep noise. This is jazz and music of West African origin with the internal organs joined.”