ayden Chisholm's collective of jazz and world vocalists and instrumentalists has produced a stunning sampling of international sounds, living up to HEALING THE MUSIC's bold proclamation. "Nia Njia", which douses Gareth Lubbe's dubby, operatic vocals with flecks of Matt Penman's upright bass, is the most startling example of how the record does, in fact, operate as a suture stitching together global sounds into a functional, flexible piece of sonic cartilage. Jumping from mellow moods to rhythmic dalliances, HEALING never devolves into mundane noodling, instead jolting the possibilities of culturally duplicitous, but singularly gelled, music to life.|
Rovi