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James Holden & The Animal Spirits at Smida Jazz Festival at Smida Park
Courtesy of Smida Jazz Festival | Posted on March 26, 2019
When
Fri, August 16, 2019
21:00
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About
James Holden has a Maths Bachelor at Oxford, but he devoted his life to music. A personality with a lot of talent, he reinvented himself as Dj, producer and guru of electronic music. Over the past decade, he focused on the growth of a live group that mixes astral jazz, minimal with rhythms of North African music. This combination, attractive to the consumers of the genre, is described by Holden as “folk-trance”.
“Folk-Trance” because it involves a ritualist abandonment in music and matches their constant concern for spiritual jazz albums, such as those of Don Cherry or Pharoah Sanders....