ROMO

ROMO

A globally minded blast from the Dominican dembow star. While Chimbala made his name in dembow, the Dominican star simply cannot be confined to one genre. On the globally oriented ROMO, he proudly flaunts the extent of his redoubtable dance-floor potency, often with his favored studio cohort B One the Golden Producer at his side. Between the clubby opener “QUE NO SE ACABE” and the rapturous back-and-forth of closer “ELENA,” this EP-length effort touches on Afrobeats, dancehall, and other internationally derived sounds, which he synthesizes with his own stylistic choices. Eager to be part of Chimbala’s party vibe, Colombian hitmaker J Balvin gets in on the action for the DJ Luian-assisted title track, while Bulova and Coyote 63 help make “QUE LA CHOQUE” a thrilling albeit brief blast. Rest assured that dembow’s signature rhythm and corresponding vocal approach have their place here, particularly so on “PA LA CALLE ME VOY” and the pulsating call-and-response number “YO YO.”