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Go-go is sampled by: Kurtis Blow, Grace Jones, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Salt-N-Pepa, 2 Live Crew, Jay-Z, Jill Scott, Nelly, Justin Timberlake...

Shams Ensemble starts a new tour on Sunday, September 27, 2009 in San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall. Their other shows on October 3rd in New York, October 10th in Los Angeles, October 17th in San Diego, and November 8th in Washington DC. For tickets go to cityboxoffice.com.

'This exquisite recording finds one of the most gifted percussionists in Latin music today working in what is perhaps his true element - the Santeria liturgy. The spiritual power of this Afro-Caribbean religious ceremony, sung in Yoruba to the accompaniment of a three-man percussion bata is awesome, but it is the intense articulation of rhythm that makes this music so devastating, incredible.'-JD Considine,Musician Magazine'A wonderful album - absorbing, mesmerizing, beautiful and fun, graceful and sensual. It draws ou into a space and reality all its own, with a mood and flow quite distant from the everyday and yet hauntingly familiar. I found myself playing it over and over...' - City Paper (Washington DC)'Is a stone soul picnic, so party down. If you're going to buy one record this summer, here is one that, in the words of Hebrew National, answers to a higher authority.' - Glenn O'Brien, Interview Recorded in August 1985. Personnel: Milton Cardona (vocals, percussion); Steve Berrios, Hector Hernandez (bata); Jose Fernandez (percussion); Amma Dawn, Teresa Gomez, Sandra Wiles, Linda Evans (background vocals).

Go-Go music suffered setbacks with 2006 closings of popular D.C. venues : Kili's Cafe, Club U, Between Friends. 93.0 WKYS Go-Go Awards may pump it back up a bit.

Reviews of the underground, eclectic dance music scene, with jazz, latin, electronics, funk, soul, and house mixed in...Eclectica!