Love the Donkey
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| Studio album by Cyro Baptista | ||||
| Released | November 22, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 at Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ | |||
| Genre | World music | |||
| Length | 51:47 | |||
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Tzadik 7614 |
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| Producer | Cyro Baptista & Jamie Saft | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
Love the Donkey is an album by percussionist Cyro Baptista's percussion and dance ensemble Beat the Donkey, which was released on the Tzadik label in 2005. The album was privately released as Beat the Donkey Beat in 2004.
Thom Jurek of Allmusic said "With Love the Donkey, Baptista has done what was seemingly impossible. As urban musicians strive to learn more about roots music to incorporate into their sound, he has done the reverse: found the music of the city, of the modern, and of the postmodern, and made it serve folk music. In this wild and woolly party, where almost anything goes, the ancient is tied inseparably to the present, and creates a new and joyous future". On All About Jazz Sean Patrick Fitzell observed "A panoply of percussion erupts from Love the Donkey as Cyro Baptista and his merry troupe of percussionists and special guests unleash fourteen tracks of manic energy and irrepressible fun. It serves as an effective antidote to overly cerebral and self-consciously serious music... Baptista's music for his Beat the Donkey ensemble works because it's done honestly and with contagious enthusiasm. Love the Donkey testifies that humor does indeed belong in music".
All compositions by Cyro Baptista except as indicated
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