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Watch Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo - INTERPLAY

Posted: January 6, 2018

Vocalist and composer Kavita Shah follows up her Inner Circle Music debut recording - Visions, collaborating with Bassist François Moutin in an intimate yet extraordinary new project titled: Interplay. The album features special guests and NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan, Shah's mentor, along with Martial Solal. The disc will release on February 16 via Dot Time Records. 

Shah makes work in deep engagement with the jazz tradition, while also addressing and advancing its global sensibilities. A lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an "amazing dexterity for musical languages" (NPR), Shah incorporates her ethnographic research on Brazilian, West African, and Indian musical traditions into her original repertoire. In 2017, her interdisciplinary work "Folk Songs of Naboréa," a contemporary song-cycle for seven voices, was premiered at the Park Avenue Armory and named by Nate Chinen (NPR) as one of the Top 10 Jazz Performances of the year. 

Francois Moutin was born in Paris. As a member of the legendarey Martial Solal's Trio, Moutin was recognized as one of the finest young bass players in Europe. At 29, he began co-leading the Quintet Moutin with his twin brother Louis, a top echelon Jazz drummer. This project has evolved into the Moutin Reunion Quartet. With this band, the brothers are touring extensively around Europe and the United States. The third album of the Moutin Reunion Quartet was called -  "Something Like Now" (after "Power Tree" and "Red Moon").  Watch the attached video of - François Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo - INTERPLAY