BIG MEAN SOUND MACHINE Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Since forming in 2009, Big Mean Sound Machine has carved a niche as purveyors of global "body and soul" music whose attractive and floor-friendly tracks brilliantly blend elements of South American, Caribbean, African and North American music. Runnin' For The Ghost, their fourth full-length, distills this potent formula further, with the 15-piece ensemble offering up tracks rich in Tony Allen style drum rhythms, dub-soaked basslines, righteous Cuban horns, juju guitars, mighty dub basslines and mind-altering hand-percussion. It's an anything-goes, open-minded approach that results in a swathe of arresting highlights, from the bustling horns and alien synths of "Sahara Cell Phones" and Cuban dub flex of "Another Grain of Sand", to the hectic Afro-funk fun of "Van Chatter".