“Cuban music and its labyrinth of rhythms are never far away, though they rarely escape from the Latin scene to wider acclaim, as the veterans of Buena Vista Social Club managed 20 years back. Signed to Daptone, a label that has helped reanimate the soul music of a previous era, Orquesta Akokán have done much the same for the big-band styles of 1950s Cuba, when the likes of Perez Prado and Benny Mo”
