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NPR
Latin music that breaks barriers and pushes boundaries. An episode of NPR's Alt.Latino that explores several cutting edge Latin artists, including Sarah Aroeste, who are "united by commitment to inventiveness and unmistakable soul."

SoundRoots
SoundRoots names Aroeste's Gracia one of the top 10 Global CD's this fall.

http://www.soundroots.org/2012/10/top-10-global-cds-october-2012.html

The Forward
The Forward names "Gracia" one of the Top-5 albums of 2012.

http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/167508/forward-fives--in-music/

World Music Central
On Gracia, the classically trained Sarah Aroeste is joined by musicians from the USA, Israel, Morocco, Spain, Uruguay, Colombia and Russia. Together, they give new life to traditional wedding songs, love ballads, and also contribute new original material...Highlights of the album include the Flamenco and Middle Eastern-infused fusion piece ‘Scalerica de Oro/Dodi Yarad’, the dreamy ‘Tu Portret’, the passionate ‘El Leon Ferido’ and the global electronica dance grooves of ‘Scalerica de Oro (DMD Remix)’... With Gracia, Sarah Aroeste injects fresh new sounds into the ancient Ladino music.

Angelica Music
Few albums take risks as successfully as on Gracia... If you’re into world music with the New York flare, Sarah Aroeste is for you.

RootsWorld
Give Aroeste high marks for boldness and daring to be different... the [tracks] that combine aggressive drive with sweeter textures that are well served by Aroeste’s girlish voice (“Ensuenyo Te Vi,” “Las Estreyas”) are sincerely absorbing.

Splinters and Candy
[Sarah Aroeste] has spent a decade expanding upon contemporary Ladino music. Classically trained and pop-savy, Sarah mixes flamenco and pan-Mediterranean melodies on her new record. Listen to the fiery passion in “Gracia,” the title track from the album...and get your hands on a copy of Gracia today.

Incognito Music Magazine
[Aroeste] falls pretty easily into the pop/rock category. What makes this artist rare is that she sings a Judeo-Spanish language called Ladino. And her voice is really something.

All About Jazz
There are elements of flamenco, rock, opera, and Latin popular music, blended into the selections on “Gracia,” in which Aroeste takes long dormant traditional and originally inspired poetic works and twists them into a fresh contemporary sound.

Remezcla
We thought Ladino, the Castillian Spanish & Hebrew hybrid, was near to a dead language and then artist Sarah Aroeste appears and it’s alive again, very alive. Aroeste has been writing and singing in Ladino for the past 10 years, which is quite a feat for the young songstress... [H]er third album, Gracia—a mesmerizing mix of feminist, experimental and Mediterranean-infused original Ladino songs.


Midwest Record
This is a mind blowing set that the open eared world beater will play for all their friends and try to make them believers. Hot stuff.

Inside World Music
American-born Ladino singer, Sarah Aroeste, continues to create contemporary rock and pop compositions with a Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Spanish element. The Ladino-language songs touch on Jewish history, love, and relationships amidst a background of symphonic strings, Middle Eastern percussion, and contemporary arrangements... Overall, Sarah hits high marks with a new release of contemporary Sephardic music.