"Musical innovator Andres Levin is a multi-culti world unto himself ... He's a brilliant producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist"

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“[A] New York City collective of open-eared Afro-Cuban funkateers led by producer/multi-instrumental Andres Levin.. After a year of incendiary live gigs, Yerba Buena makes its full-length debut. [they] exert a tight grip on their amped-up dance music, offering muscular, detailed grooves that manage to be both fluid and airtight.”

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“…from rumba to guajira to rock to hip-hop, lyrics in English and Spanish, rappers and singers who can handle sultry ballads, pop hooks or santeria-style incantations… a set that layered party music and sly social commentary into a joyful, ever-evolving, border-hopping groove.”

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"Dig this: the best new afrobeat band on the scene is Yerba Buena... The sound of Yerba Buena is brawny, ecstatic, and deeply funky in an Afroatlantic way, with energy so raw that dilettantish aficionados of Latin Music would do better to keep playing that old Joe Cuba LP at home. Producer/keyboardist Andres Levin formed the group conceiving the band as a school' for Afrolatin composers, songwriters and artists to play and experiment with what he calls 'the other side of Latin music-the black Latin music'.  If you think that means African polyrhythms, if you think that means hip-hop, if you think that means cumbia and guajira and son, you're right and you're wrong.  Yerba Buena is all that and so much more"

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