{"id":5423,"date":"2016-01-28T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/01\/28\/first-listen-sidestepper-supernatural-love\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T04:00:18","slug":"first-listen-sidestepper-supernatural-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/first-listen-sidestepper-supernatural-love\/","title":{"rendered":"First Listen: Sidestepper, 'Supernatural Love'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sidestepper’s new album, Supernatural Love<\/em>, comes out Feb. 5. Marica Cardona\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Marica Cardona\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It’s hard to keep a good idea down. In 1996, Richard Blair and Sidestepper introduced their innovative mix of Afro-Colombian and pop music to a Colombian scene that was about to explode onto the world stage.<\/p>\n

The masterminds behind Bomba Estereo<\/a> and the rappers in Choc Quib Town<\/a> have said that Sidestepper’s music opened their minds to the possibilities of ignoring boundaries and mining Afro-Colombian musical traditions. Now, Blair has reassembled Sidestepper for a new album, Supernatural Love<\/em>, and it’s hardly a nostalgic look back. Instead, it shimmers and percolates with guitars and Afro-Colombian percussion, it’s sung in Spanish and English, it looks forward constantly and, once again, it illuminates a musical path likely to influence the next generation of Colombian innovators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sidestepper, ‘Supernatural Love’<\/h3>\n
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Fuego Que Te Llama<\/a><\/h4>\n