REVIEW: Santi Debriano: Flash of the Spirit – Textura

February 26, 2021

By Ron Schepper, Textura Like its creator, Flash of the Spirit spans multiple traditions. After his family emigrated from Panama when he was four, acoustic bassist Santi Debriano grew up in Brooklyn; later enrolled as an ethnomusicology graduate student at Wesleyan University, he read Robert Farris Thompson’s Flash of the Spirit, whose questions about the … Read More

REVIEWS: Santi Debriano “Flash of The Spirit” & Leon Lee Dorsey “Thank you Mr. Marbern” – Musicalmemoirs’s Blog

February 2, 2021

By Dee Dee McNeil, Musicalmemoirs’s Blog This album premise began while Santi Debriano was a graduate student at Wesleyan University. He was reading the Robert Farris Thompson book, “Flash of the Spirit” and that book provoked a question in his mind.  To what extent have African traditions and customs been retained by contemporary Black culture … Read More

REVIEW: Santi Debriano’s ‘Flash of the Spirit’ – Making a Scene

January 18, 2021

by Jim Hynes, Making a Scene “..The album title seems especially apt as Debriano and bandmates seem to glide in and out of many grooves and styles rather seamlessly. At times, just as you feel you might be missing something, you as a listener are placed in a new and different context, flashing from one … Read More