Kip Hanrahan - Beautiful Scars (2007) [SACD]

Beautiful Scars was more than worth the wait. The album's cast, is, as usual, full of all-stars: Steve Swallow, Robby Ameen, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Milton Cardona, Fernando Saunders, Ron Blake, Alfredo Triff, Yosvany Terry Cabrera, Dafnis Prieto, Pedro Martinez, Bryan Carrott, and himself of course. His guest vocalists are an amazing, unlikely batch who work together in many ways: Ross, Xiomara Laugart, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Leijia Hanrahan, Lindsay Marcus. Some friends help out in various places: Billy Bang, Anthony Cox, Richie Flores, Mario Rivera, and the great guitarist Leo Nocentelli. The music is, for lack of a better word "Exotic": here, jazz meets many Latin rhythms, meets organic breakbeats and folk musics from all over the world in this heady stew of lyrics born of raw eros, politics, spirituality, and art-poetry.

Tracks:

01. Busses From Heaven
02. Real Time And Beautiful Scars
03. The Girl Who Won’t Resolve
04. Caravaggio / A Quick Balance
05. Night Cumbia
06. One Summer Afternoon
07. Xiomara Wears The Heat Beautifully
08. Paris Through Tears
09. Montana
10. Leija Heads To Brooklyn
11. Milton Cardona
12. Salt In The Mozambique Night
13. Rumba Of Cities
14. The Accountant Of Morning
15. Winterscapw With I.M.F.
16. City Of Gold