Patrones [LP]

Patrones lays improvising jazz musicians over four foundational Afro-Peruvian rhythms, recorded in Lima by Alfredo Valiente and Roberto and Chebo Ballumbrosio of one of that tradition's most important musical families. Each "pattern" gives its name to one of the album's four pieces. Polar, based in Mexico City for over two decades, reshaped them through a jazz, ambient and electronic dance sensibility into frameworks for group interplay, then took them into the studio with drummer Carlos Icaza, trombonist Yudith Rojas and double bassist Mike Sandoval for deep, open improvisation.

On vinyl LP, a joint release from Madrid labels Sometimes Music and Tenorio Cotobade.