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Racha Fora: Racha S'Miles

by James Nadal
November 16, 2015

The music of Miles Davis certainly needs no introduction. It has been covered in a myriad of styles, by a vast quantity of artists. Racha S'Miles is an ambitious project that deconstructs Davis's music and hurls it into a rhythmic and exotic orbit exhibiting Brazilian sensibilities. The Racha Fora ensemble consists of cross cultural musicians who have congealed into cohesive interpreters of global jazz with an ethnic tinge. The band centers on flutist/leader Hiroaki Honshuku, violinist Rika Ikeda, ...