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‘Kingdom Come’ boasts the band’s inspiration from Ethiopian music, particularly of Ethiopian jazz musician, Mulatu Astaqe. Interestingly, the horn section plays in unison with Marielle Rivard’s vocals in the majority of the song. The same style appears again on ‘Celestial Blues’, although the latter features more singing and saxophone work. The drums hip-hop beat on ‘Black Orchid’ keeps time for a warm arrangement of horns, vibraphone and keys that perfectly recreates the sound of the African American’s expression of urban life laid back and breezy, with an undertone of a melancholy struggles. Their latest studio release, Inner Fire , features mellow opening and closing tracks – ‘Initiation’ and ‘Completion’ respectively the rest of the compositions, as the album’s title suggests, are a fiery mix of music, with the power to get even the most reserved listener up and jumping.
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Their music is a mesh of catchy wind hooks, punchy percussions and the most daring of solos. Under his direction, the orchestra present a fine blend of musical genres from Afro-Cuban, Latin and Caribbean to West Coast hip-hop, these guys have proven repeatedly that they are the masters of pushing genres to unexplored aural depths. Sitting on the keys and guitars, amongst other instruments, Pierre Chrétien is deemed the group’s leader and chief composer. The Souljazz Orchestra is a six piece band of multi instrumentalists hailing from Ottawa, Canada.
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While it rarely happens, there are artists that create music so powerful that academic discussions are temporarily halted. Some argue its part of humanity’s drive to appreciate beauty, while others will delve deeper and insist that it is a subconscious necessity to create organised sound. While musicologists have tried time and time again to hypothesise the reasons as to why humans make music, their research has only brought with it vague and inconclusive results.