Number 1 Jazz album of 2004: Village Voice Tom Hull, Dec 29, 2004
“Yin and yang—fierce avant-sax and friendly folk songs united by shifty Afro-Cuban beats.”

Best of 2004 LATIN JAZZ #5 AllAboutJazz.com

Crtitics Choice 2004 Top 10 Album of the Year Jazziz, Jan 2005, Sam Prestianni

Philadelphia Inquirer, Tom Moon, Dec 26, 2004
SONGS, TRENDS OF ‘04 GET OVERDUE SPOTLIGHT
“A brazen conflation of free jazz, electronica, and Afro-Cuban rhythm. Those who think jamming begins and ends with Phish are urged to track this down immediately.”

THE WIRE UK Adventures in Modern Music August 2004, Ben Watson
…succeed in demonstrating how close to African models much of the freakout music of Ra and Coltrane actually was…The recording by Kevin Diehl and Brendan Krivda at SLF’s “undisclosed location” is ludicrously superb, giving itotele, iya, quinto, okonkolo, chekere, chawaro, clavé, palitos and drumkit such rotundity and resonance you’re shaken to the orb.

CMJ new music journal March 26, 2001
mixes traditional jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban music and trip-hop into an imaginative mix that never ceases to surprise. Perhaps the Art Ensemble of Chicago would have sounded like this if the members had come from Cuba, or perhaps they are Sun Ra refugees who decided to go back to Africa rather than return to Saturn with Sunny.

Time Out New York, June 21-28,2001 -K. Leander Williams
praise music for now people, electronica for folkies, alterna-jazzfor worldbeaters and earthy music for the urbane. And since the whole owes as much of a debt to Sun Ra as it does to Lazaro Ros, if Diehl & Co. can shape it into a cohesive set, they’ll have exploded a whole new set of expectations.

Echoes–the UK’s Essential Black Music Monthly Sept. 2004
JAZZ ALBUM OF THE MONTH
writing as well as playing reflect the richness of one who has absorbed and understood the work of anybody from Omar Sosa and Pancho Quinto to Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake. At times Ashe A Go-Go comes accross asa Kip Hanrahan record with fewer guests and shorter song titles. The compositional richness and execution are on the same level as are the ardour and attention to detail. Very possibly the album of the year.

Orlando Weekly, Jason Ferguson July1/2004
…everything jells together beautifully, with the sort of pan-global fervor that’s been missing from the jazz scene for a long time now … missing, that is, everywhere but Philly.