16 Rayos Orquesta Akokán As well as being Daptone Record’s first Spanish album, Orquesta Akokán’s eponymous 2018 debut quickly garnered a very eclectic and eager audience. The Cuban-American ensemble is now back with 16 Rayos, […]

Following a widely acclaimed self-titled debut in 2018, which earned Grammy as well as Latin Billboard nominations, the American-Cuban supergroup continues its world conquest with a second LP on the prestigious New York label Daptone […]

The orchestra, which brings together all-star Cuban and New York musicians, brilliantly resurrects the great era of mambo. Akokan means “from the heart” in Yoruba, a dominant African language throughout Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian cultures and […]