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Continuing to explore the possibilities of the Cuban/Caribbean musical blend, See the Sunrise is the second offering from BudNubac. A slightly different lineup; the album is bolder and more confident than its predecessor – with a more pronounced sense of 'album'. By that, we mean that the album brings the listener through a defined series of moods – there is the bouncing fun of the opening tracks, which reaches a crescendo in Pass me the Rum (just try not singing along), then the mood and tempo come down a touch in I Know. Soon after, the album reaches the dub sketches of Artes Ancianos and by Embembe, the listener is dropped into a sonic landscape that Taylor-Firth describes as: 'Getting lost in the middle of carnival, tired and worse for wear, stumbling into a bar full of music and locals, and the place goes silent. It's not that you're unwelcome, but you just don't belong. Like you interrupted a ritual....' Embembe features a didactic face-off between Cuban poets Justo Salas and Dhaphné Porrata. The evocative rhythm of their dialect is at once opaque and intoxicating – something overheard, out of reach, intensely evocative. I Miss You is a heart-wrenching love song, sung by Patricia del Olmo in a smoky voice that transports the listener to the early hours of the morning in a Havana cantina.

And then all of a sudden, it's dawn. Yorkshire Mountain Girl brings us back up with birdsong, 10forTen brings back the beats, and... we're dancing around the kitchen once again.

Everything that made the first album (Que Se Yo) outstanding: the musicianship, the latin/Caribbean mood, the smouldering vocals, the sultry grooves – still there. The rest is evolution – bigger, bolder, better.