Jazz Articles about Zoe & Idris Rahman

Zoe & Idris Rahman: Where Rivers Meet

by Chris May
September 27, 2008

The Bengali folk and film music inspired Where Rivers Meet introduces a radical and beautiful new direction for the London-based pianist Zoe Rahman and her clarinetist/saxophonist brother, Idris.

Born and brought up in Britain by a Bengali father and English mother, Zoe Rahman describes herself as culturally “very English," and her previous work has been shaped almost entirely by the American jazz tradition filtered through British sensibilities. The first sign she gave of an emerging interest in Bengali ...