Album Notes

It's no surprise that The Snake Trio's home is the San Francisco Bay Area, home to a music scene that appreciates tradition while also reveling in experimentation. San Francisco music critic Chuy Varela describes The Snake Trio's music as "Latin Jazz with a cool Venezuelan twist". The title track on this, their second CD, "Light the Candle", is a percussive Afro-Venezuelan tune that shows off the rhythmic complexity and spiritual quality of Venezuelan music and also nicely supports improvisational explorations. This is not a Venezuelan jazz fusion sound, but more like a call and response between American jazz and traditional Venezuelan music. Other songs weave the traditions into a single thread with the cuatro, bass and flute winding deep inside a gorgeous Snake Trio groove.