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Stripped of baroque or superfluous arrangements, the ten songs that make it up sound exactly like what their audience expected, but more clearly compared to the precarious sound where Julen used to play. The album also has another enormous virtue, and it's the unconsciousness of youth, the search for an identity, without shame, modesty, or calculation. Lyrically, it's an album that hints it was written by people barely in their twenties. At times cheesy, at times rough, but always seemingly honest. Led by Federico Morosini, a prolific songwriter full of primal enthusiasm composing songs back to back with his cheap Creole guitar in his Mother's house; supported at first by Juan Pablo Campagna on electric guitar and Marcelo Duarte on drums, eventually with Agustina Santomauro as bassist. They stood out for songs that forged subtle links that had never been crystallized in such a solid way between the Montevideo song, the Donosti sound, the twee pop bands released by Sarah Records, the noisy nineties indie bands of Matador Records, and the independent scene on both sides of the Río de la Plata, the Uruguayan collective Esquizodelia and the Argentine label Laptra. Julen had an ace up their sleeve and it was the arrangement of their songs. While it may be easy to identify their influences, the trait of creating anthem-like songs was relatively novel. Their first compositions hold a sense of spiritual discernment, a sensibility that could only be described without belittling them, as \"popular.\" This debut album, perfect in its imperfection, is a document, a time capsule of a period that in the face of constant technological, social, and economic changes, seems to be further and further away even though not even a decade has passed since its release. 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Avr, the great-grandson of Juan Julio Arrascaeta (one of the first Afro-descendant poets to be published in Latin America) writes throughout the album, using several \"Africanisms\" and lost words that date back from colonial and slavery times, giving the lyrics a connection with his great-grandfather's work, introducing himself as a skillful MC who travels through past, present and future while using several candombe rhythms in his flow. Highlighting several personalities from the Afro-Uruguayan culture and from across the American continent, it also presents itself as a valuable work for those interested in researching cultural figures of Black America, especially, Uruguayan. Under the production of Felipe Fuentes, an album knitted with tons of messages, some direct, some to be discovered, came to life. Sankofa means \"to look back, to go forward\" which is exactly from the beginning what this musical journey is, from a very heavy and dense, ancestral, drum presence, to complex harmonic compositions and arrangements, a work that counts with important contributions of some of the main Afro-Uruguayan artists. 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