Defendini

I saw one of my favourite bands, Cultura Profética, play last night at S.O.B.’s. Cultura is a puertorrican reggae band who’ve been around for years, and are old friends who I hadn’t seen in some years as well (they don’t play out in NYC too often, unfortunately, although they keep a rather busy touring schedule throughout Latin America). They are consummate musicians, and truly thrive on live performances—in the ten years I’ve been seeing them play live, I’ve never seen the same show twice: always new arrangements, always good improvisation jams. The show was quite good, although hardly as good as other shows I’ve seen them play. This may or may not have had a lot to do with S.O.B.’s atrocious sound system. It seems that they’re also working on a new album—they played two or three works-in-progress, which is always nice to hear. It was great to see many familiar faces again, and enjoy a nice night out with some good music.

Here they are, doing a cover of Bob’s “Is This Love”, from their annual Bob Marley tribute show in PR. Enjoy.