Da Lata - Birds

Da Lata - BirdsDa Lata's highly anticipated fourth album Birds is a genre busting journey through London Afro Brazilian soul music. The most homogeneous Da Lata record to date, Christian Franck has honed his craft and expanded his art to create a glowing testimony from the melting pot of the capital's musical life. Gathering his family of collaborators with diverse musical backgrounds in soul, jazz, and gospel as well as African and Brazilian forms, Birds is an

two-minute ripper

Though the trio of John Medeski

the set includes four bonus tracks in addition to new interviews from the band and their key co-conspirator

Each track offers a mix of introspection and grit

offering a rare glimpse into his archive of unreleased material

who was handpicked by U2 to fill in for Larry Mullen Jr

Nathan Follow ill

which would become one of the band's famous concert numbers

explaining the inclusion of electronic samples and the dramatic juxtaposition between roaring chaos and accessible craftsmanship

) The singer then left the band and started singing with the Norwegian band Backstreet Girls

the debut album from the Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band

The folks at Castle Face dig a good trance