Alchemy Sound Project
ARC, 2021, CD
Instrument: Instrumental
Issue: 27.2
Jazz Ruler Type: Fusion
Performance: 3
Sound: 3
Score: 71
O’s Notes: The Alchemy Sound Project is a group of composing artists that play a blend of modern jazz with chamber and world fusion elements. The principle artists are David Arend (b), Sumi Tonooka (p), Selim Washington (t-sax, fl, b-cl, oboe), Samantha Boshnack (t) and Erica Lindsay (t-sax, cl, fl). who each contribute one of the five compositions on Afrika Love. The mood is sometimes dark and sometimes adventurous on this set of relaxed, symphonic, jazz-fusion. Among the best are “Kesii”, and the title track.
Publicist: Braithwaite & Katz