Outstanding live reggae?
tkpk7057 | Takoma Park, MD | 11/29/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Believe it; amazing, but true. This album is not the cleanest in sound quality, but it does what live albuns are supposed to do -- capture the excitement of the live date. And the music is good; very good. Far I is of course always hypnotic. This date draws that out perhaps better than anything else I have heard him on. The tracks are long, which means they can set up a groove, and then Far I can just go and go. There is a certain sameness to the material; it's not a perfect album. But a couple of the tracks are of the highest caliber, standing next to the elite of all time in the genre. "Brujo Magic" will amaze you -- it's trippy, entrancing, and matches a kind of disco-y, ahead-of-its-time spacy quality with Far I's most gravelly, haunting, droning, and chant-like vocal style. A fine purchase."