To the iconic composer, drummer, and bandleader, Bobby Sanabria who leads – proverbially and literally – from the front, The Multiverse is a living metaphor created to describe the world in which Mr Sanabria lives and breathes. The Multiverse is the motherlode of all Mr Sanabria’s creations. It is the magnetic centre to which he attempts – successfully, one might add – to draw anyone who has the ears to listen. Therefore, in it, although he draws a myriad of musicians into his wake, he is the proverbial town crier because is the greatest – and loudest – advocate of this place with breezy rhythms, loud melodic incantations and [often] impossibly breathtaking harmonies, made of a multitude of pieces of music – ensemble and solo – that are somehow, magically made to fit. While the capital of this so-called Multiverse is Puerto Rico, its geosphere spans not only the entire Afro-Caribbean diaspora but [in the music of Mr Sanabria] spans the whole musical universe. And now, that Multiverse echoes with one voice – Vox Humana. If you think that Mr Sanabria is going to let the rest of dancing mankind rest outside the Multiverse, you may have another thought coming as Mr Sanabria’s musical mission – here and on other albums as well – is to draw audiences to him. He does this to loud exhortations at the start of songs, in the middle of songs and – with great theatrical flourish [like Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and other legendary bandleaders from the Afro-Cuban ionosphere: Machito, Tito Rodríguez and Tito Puente] at the climactic finale of songs. The music on these two discs forming this musical palimpsest – Vox Humana is very much in this vein. The brass is infectiously loud [mostly], as are the woodwinds and the vocalists, who have to – and are loud, but elegantly so. They must be, if they aim to seize the day and stand tall in the front of this band, wresting the surging, incandescent energy from the band when vocalists are called for to embellish the brilliant instrumentalism.