I imagine it as a hot summer evening in Barcelona. Thousands of young Catalans clad in their jeans and sandals, pressed up against each other, are waiting for the Ojos de Brujos, the Eyes of the Wizard, to take the stage with their hip hop-tinged, flamenco-drenched Spanish pop. In no time, the crowd is singing along, and the guitar riffs are soaring out into space at breakneck speed, accompanied by vivid lyrical images. Once upon a time, early in their careers, the Grateful Dead played to packed audiences under the name “The Warlocks,” and it’s a similar style of magic that the Ojos weave, but Ojos de Brujos are animated by a fiery political zeitgeist, evidenced by their Spanish cover of Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up,” and unmatched by the Dead.
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Six Degree RecordsPublished March 13, 2008 by Sean Marchetto in CD Reviews
