Earth

"[The album] embraces spiritual jazz, soul jazz, cosmic jazz, Indo jazz, Yoruba ritual music and Maghrebi and Middle Eastern trance musics, and gives tips of the hat to electronica and Jon Hassell's Fourth World template. That combination in itself is enough to tickle outward-facing pleasure receptors. But - and herein lies the real genius - the music is more than the sum of its diverse and toothsome parts ... With a total of 21 musicians in the collective ensemble, this is Emanative's largest line-up to date. The core octet is augmented by seven additional musicians and there are a further half-dozen guests (...) [including] British saxophonist Nat Birchall and onetime Egypt 80 keyboard player Dele Sosimi, in whose London-based Afrobeat Orchestra Emanative's baritone saxophonist Tamar Osborn is a longstanding star ... Each and every track is a delight".

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