A Musical Treasure Hides in Guanabacóa Cuba In the central southeastern part of Africa is Nigeria, the cradle of Santeria and Ifá. The beautifully rich and spiritually reaffirming culture of the Yoruba was violently transplanted from its' mother continent to a fertile and enticingly luscious, lovely island known today as Cuba. From the upheaval of the revolution came the opportunity for the descendants of black, sugar-cane cultivating slaves to be educated in the intricacies of the theories of western music and to be given the luxury of the time to dedicate to the discipline of the development of this skill to its' utmost heights. Descendants of respected Santeros and Rumberos of great renown and students of the melodious metrenomically developed discipline of classical music in the finest schools of the arts in Havana. Sublime wedding of all that is most primal and immediate in the eternal gift of African rhythms and life affirming archetypes of African deities, and the precise mathematical European worship of the macroscopic grandness of the universal spheres. All this together with the gift of standing on the shoulders of such modern inspirations as, Weather Report, Earth Wind & Fire, and Chick Corea. From this heady stew issues, ‘Los Hermanos Arango’ Sacred music of Santería married to the most complex Jazz harmonics. Rhythms brought to life on the skins of the traditional Batá entwined with the sweet strains of Miles influenced trumpet solos and Simmering Saxophone that smacks of Coltrane, and a Bass that kicks the music into the stratosphere of Rhythmic ecstasy akin only to that of Jaco. And to think that this is all the product of one struggling, united, loving, unbelievably focused family of people with a fresh and unique world class talent. I implore the world to listen and thereby be all the more enriched. Here is truly the destruction of barriers between cultures and the purest celebration of the cradle of Life.