KARMASOUND Vinilo y CD

Review: Following a handful of killer nu-jazz singles over the last couple of years, Damian Botigue is finally ready to release his debut album as Karmasound. As you might expect, "La Busqueda" is a vibrant, colourful and musically rich affair, with Botigue doing a stellar job of delivering tracks that variously join the dots between jazz, broken beat, soul, early house, boogie, jazz-funk, samba (see the wonderfully warm "Lo Unico Que Quiero") and what some might consider Balearica. The Latin influence is particularly strong throughout, though it never dominates (even some of the most obviously Brazilian-centric cuts are really broken beat jams with added samba swing). As a result "La Busqueda" is an impressively diverse set of 21st century fusion jams.