Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your telepathic interplay of music criticism and cultural awareness.

I'm John Perreelis. Oh, That was David Vereus with Seven Through the Divination Horn.

This pop cast is actually jazz cast with Nate Chenen and Ben Ratliff.

Welcome.

Thank you. Hello.

Nate, let's start with you, your album of the year, your top jazz album on your top ten list was a Cuban

pianist named David Vireais. Tell us about it.

This is his first album on the ECM label. It's continuing this preoccupation he has with Afro-Cuban

folklore and religious ritual and culture and sort of translating it into a modern jazz framework. You know, he's very into

blending, he's very into doing a lot of things with Tamber as well as rhythm and you know this is just

one of those records that's that's very deep very resonant I just kept finding

new wonderful things about it the more I listen to it.

And he's got a lot of traditional drumming on it.

Yes, his partner in these investigations is Roman Diaz who chants as well as place percussion.

On this album he's playing the Beyond Comico,

which is a traditional percussive expression

for the Abakua. You know, there's a previous record that David Vare. of the

expression of Abakua. You know, there's a previous record that David Vareus made called a continuum that was I think two years ago. It was on both of our lists

on pie recordings. This record is very much a companion to that one, but for me,

it was bumped up just a little bit because I felt like it's been streamlined a bit, it's been metabolized a little bit, and

he has two bass players on this record, Thomas Morgan and Robert Hurst.

They're used very, very well,

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