Angelique Kidjo - Africa SingsAfrica Sings is a probing celebration into African music, through classical music and jazz, through legacy and tradition. The recital begins with Anglique Kidjo singing Bella Bellow's Senye, segueing into the premiere recording of Philip Glass's orchestral song cycle Three If Songs, composed for Kidjo in 2014. The focus goes then to American music with Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige in Maurice Peress orchestral arrangement, before shifting to

Finland found it's musical identity largely through the work of Jean Sibelius

his debut on Ghostly's International's freeform label

Aria et Final as one of the few "lucid" compositions of the late romantic period and pardons it for it's difficulty in playing technique: "But what do difficulties mean when the emotional content compensates one for it in such a rich way

"Describing the uncanny

The album also includes Six Bagatelles for String Trio

Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon

a silent scream for freedom

" While the "Arpeggi" cover was recorded a year before work on Inner Song was properly started

drummer Adam Reach (Pink Avalanche)

Formed in the Yellow Mill River ghetto of Bridgeport

and Bach was extremely resourceful in treading a fine line between creating the almost operatic spectacle valued by the secular authorities in Leipzig

and Madi delivers in an emphatic fashion