We get asked that a lotРІР‚В¦ I find people unfairly tough on Ottawa, I feel like IРІР‚в„ўm constantlyР’В defending it! I think itРІР‚в„ўs a great city myself, and I donРІР‚в„ўt really see ourselves moving anywhere else, at least in the short term. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Where is the band most successful? And if you can answer that, whatРІР‚в„ўs the explanation for the groupРІР‚в„ўs particular success there? So, I find itРІР‚в„ўs better not to make assumptions about people! 3. However, weРІР‚в„ўve seen tons of counter-examples to this:Р’В I remember playing this club in Helsinki at 2 a.m., with the sun still up, where the roof almost came off the place. But, to make a huge sweeping statement, people in the southern regions tend to maybe be a bit more demonstrative, while those in the northern parts might be a little more reserved. ItРІР‚в„ўs difficult to generalize like that, these people in this country are like this, these people are like that! We also play a really wide variety of venues, which makes for very different audiences: we might play a solemn jazz festival concert one night with Wynton Marsalis, and the next night weРІР‚в„ўll be playing a hot sweaty dance club with a FrenchР’В hip-hop group. All of your international touring makes me wonder how would you describe the audiences that the band attracts in the different countries that it plays? Do you get different receptions in different destinations? National Capital Region's Top EmployersР”Сћ.The music is always exciting, soulful, and expertly played, and never falls prey to clichРІР‚С™s. No matter how high they set the bar here, the Souljazz Orchestra executes. While horns assert themselves at the start, it's the keys, layers of manic percussion, and M'Baye and a chorus that send this one over as the set's strongest cut. 'Serve & Protect' is a furious rhythm collision of Afro-beat and Latin rhythms. The other reggae-inflected jam here, 'Conquering Lion,' is hard on the jazz-funk tip with killer front-line horns on all burners. 'Jericho' is on the roots reggae tip with baritone saxophonist Ray Murray on vocals, while the more streetwise 'Kingpin' goes at reggae with guest Gary 'Slim' Moore leading the swaggering bubbler. Immediately following, M'Baye leads the band in the funk number 'Kelen Ati Leen.' 'Ya Basta' showcases the band's horn section as it employs incendiary salsa in an excellentstepper, with a vocal from the Souljazz Orchestra's resident conguero and drummer, Philippe LafreniР•В re leading the furious dance chant. The layers of guitars and distorted keyboards (Pierre ChrРІР‚С™tien) are folded in to layers of percussion, horns, and a call-and-response chorus. Here, Afro-beat and Eithio-jazz meet slippery funk grooves from the modern West. Set opener 'Bibinay' features El Hadji '?lage' M'Baye, a Senegalese native who now resides in Quebec. The band employs its usual meld of Afro-beat, Caribbean, tropical, Latin, and Brazilian styles with jazz, funk, and soul, but the interaction with singers brings the mix to a whole different level. Solidarity furthers the band's reach as it employs vocal talents from a wide range of singers from Canada's vast underground music scene. Meeting with nearly universal acclaim, it spread the sextet's well-deserved reputation for creating a musically adventurous meld of global styles, accurately reflecting roots cultures in dialogue with one another in the 21st century - without watering them down. Canada's Souljazz Orchestra were well-known to European audiences before their 2010 Strut debut, Rising Sun it was the sextet's first all-acoustic effort.

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