La Tribu De Abrante
Bomba Band
On the lips of all of my favorite musicians in Puerto Rico as well as many music journalists right now, La Tribu De Abrante has been burning down stages across PR. Bringing the Bomba tradition to a new generation, they have the energy of a Nawlins brass ensemble and invoke a crowd participation level that makes it very difficult to please the rowdy audiences left in their wake. Led by Abrante, formerly a percussionist in Tego Calderon’s band, the new project puts him in the foreground as el cacique, or chief, of his own tribe. He’s carrying forward the evolution of a centuries old Afro-Caribbean tradition: BOMBA.