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I’m sure you all know how stale the contemporary jazz scene can be sometimes (like all music scenes I hear you say). Thank God there’s always some fresh talent waiting to take it to the next level. One such beam of freshness is Brooklyn based pianist Aaron Parks, who recently had a Blue Note debut named Invisible Cinema.

I first heard about Asa-Chang & Junray with the song Hana a few years ago. This was a radically different music than the Western conception of music. Tabla was used like the Indian tabla masters, creating syllables that matched with Asa-Chang’s singing, however the music and the lyrics were Japanese, a strange hybrid.