World Swing
World Swing is built around and in relation to a live jazz drummer. It explores the relationship between swinging jazz and various world musics, in particular the music of Brazil, Northern Indian Classical Music and the traditional drumming of West Africa. It does not try to make pastiches or to try to use the actual techniques of those musics. Instead it is an imaginative trip through space and time, so that what happens in the music being visited is more suggested. It is a more impressionistic vision, rather as a painter might not take a naturalistic approach to a subject but instead shows us the impact of what is seen.
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