![]() The layers of guitars and distorted keyboards (Pierre Chr‚tien) are folded in to layers of percussion, horns, and a call-and-response chorus. Here, Afro-beat and Eithio-jazz meet slippery funk grooves from the modern West. ![]() Set opener "Bibinay" features El Hadji "?lage" M'Baye, a Senegalese native who now resides in Quebec. The band employs its usual meld of Afro-beat, Caribbean, tropical, Latin, and Brazilian styles with jazz, funk, and soul, but the interaction with singers brings the mix to a whole different level. Solidarity furthers the band's reach as it employs vocal talents from a wide range of singers from Canada's vast underground music scene. Meeting with nearly universal acclaim, it spread the sextet's well-deserved reputation for creating a musically adventurous meld of global styles, accurately reflecting roots cultures in dialogue with one another in the 21st century - without watering them down. ![]() Canada's Souljazz Orchestra were well-known to European audiences before their 2010 Strut debut, Rising Sun it was the sextet's first all-acoustic effort.
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