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Instrument: Flute

Album Review

Ilios Steryannis: Babylonia Suite

Read "Babylonia Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 15, 2023

Canadian drummer Ilios Steryannis traces his family roots back 2,500 years to ancient Babylonia. With his Babylonia Suite, he explores the family tree and his maternal grandparents' diasporic journey from Baghdad to Mumbai to Manchester and finally to Canada with a world music selection of sunshine bright music, with eleven life-affirming compositions. The instruments include piano, bansuri flute, violin, tabla, oud and saxophone. The result is a sort of Middle Eastern, Indo-jazz fusion that shifts into the direction of “Blue ...

Album Review

Sundar: What a Dream I Had...

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 31, 2011

Oltre alle tante cantanti in giro per i palcoscenici c'è pure qualche collega maschio che prova a attirare su di sè l'attenzione dei riflettori. Prendiamo ad esempio Sundar, artista di origine indiana cresciuto in Canada, che con una raccolta di standards si presenta all'attenzione del pubblico. In What a Dream I Had... troviamo un mix di brani moderni, di Carly Simon e del cantante folk canadese Gordon Lightfoot, oltre che brani brasiliani ("A Felicidade" e “Fotografia") e alcuni evergreen. Il ...