Miramar, the bolero side project from members of Richmond, Virginia, -based salseros Bio Ritmo, is not so much a side thing anymore–at least not in our view. Since the debut of their LP Dedication to Sylvia Rexach (Barbes Records) in 2016,... Read Article
There’s no shortage of new music coming out of the Caribbean. Artists routinely dominating the charts in the widely encompassing urbano genre hail from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and hip-hop and jazz artists from Cuba have... Read Article
The bolero is a genre of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance. As a child, this writer wasn’t too fond of the “slow music” her mother would play while she was cleaning the house on Saturdays. Fast-forward to young adulthood, a... Read Article
Though world music can be found in New York City virtually year-round, January is a time when a plethora of global sounds can be seen in the Big Apple, thanks to the APAP conference and globalFEST. globalFEST, Sunday, Jan.... Read Article
Though they’ve been at it for more than 20 years now, we introduced Bio Ritmo to our readers as “forward-thinking salsa” back in 2011. Well, the Richmond, Virginia -based outfit is still at it, and these wonderful remixes of... Read Article
Missing the homeland and in need of a little dancing fix? The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa is waiting for you. With transnational influences taken from salsa and son, this compilation will have you dancing in your chair... Read Article
Classic salsa seems to be the ‘new, old in-thing’ lately, but Bio Ritmo, a Richmond, Virginia, -based outfit that’s been in the game for more than 20 years, keeps perfecting the sound with each new record they release.... Read Article
Along its twenty years of existence, Bio Ritmo has experimented with different salsa styles, incorporated influences that range from punk-rock to samba, and established themselves as pioneers of the indie salsa movement. Their fusions, along with their great... Read Article
Os Magrelos are a project started by Marlysse Simmons, also of Bio Ritmo, a group who blew us away with their album La Verdad a couple of months ago.
This is salsa, though with a difference. The instruments are the same, the rhythms the same, but there’s a difference in the attitude and confidence. It’s clear that Bio-Ritmo are taking salsa in a new direction.
Bio Ritmo‘s La Verdad is already the album of the summer and it’s not even been released yet! You’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for that to happen. But, in the meantime, we have a download... Read Article
