Unique and Beautiful
Review of Into The Fire
Into the Fire melds two distinct playing styles (in jazz based orchestra and Indian ensemble), and tackles three different compositions from similarly different aspects. The result is an album of beauty and diversity which should have a broad appeal. The title piece is the more commercial of the three, with both orchestra's joining forces to explore a more traditionally Indian composition. Moras is a more abstract composition which is very rhythmically based, and the final The Ferryman, takes the abstraction further, by underpinning a contemporary jazz orchestra arrangement, with a gently hypnotic traditional Indian rhythmic foundation. Each is quite unique and beautiful, and shows just what can be achieved when musicians and composers of differing cultural backgrounds and musical schools truly open themselves up, one to the other, and let their imaginations find new ways of expression.
- Capital Q May 2000
Reviews of Into The Fire
- Hypnotic Rhythms
- Ideas Never Become Tangled
- West Meets the Subcontinent
- The Exception to the Rule
- A Brilliant Collaboration
- Unique and Beautiful
- For Sophisticated Listeners
- All That Jazz
- New Music From An Older Tradition
- Out of This World Music
- A Triumphal Hurrah
- Melody is the Mother; Rhythm is the Father
- When East Meets West!
- Into The Fire: Synthesising East With West
- Experiment that worked
- Oceanic Wave of Fused Rhythms
- Music Connecting People
- Where Genres Meet
- Moved by Rhythm Patterns
- Into the Fire - An Introduction and Brief History
- A Quick Word From Paul Re. Into the Fire
