This ‘odd couple’ of world jazz turn about to be the perfect partnership, exploring different sounds and cultures and bringing to their music a bewitching blend of contrasts and commonalities.

Mino Cinelu & Nils Petter Molvaer

Mino Cinelu – percussion, acoustic guitar, voice, loops, etc
Nils Petter Molvaer – trumpet, electric guitar, voice, loops, effects, etc

“SulaMadiana” combines the intimacy of a jazz duo performance with post production techniques to create something magical. It also explores different musics and cultures to produce an album that is admirably varied in terms of both style and dynamics. The playing and singing is first rate and the irrepressible Cinelu is a force of nature, his percussion bringing rhythm and colour to the recording and his highly impressive vocalising an essential joyousness. Meanwhile Molvaer brings depth, texture and a balancing coolness, the perfect foil for his partner’s exuberance and vibrancy.

Recorded and developed on two different continents and influenced by at least two more this truly is a global album. Let us hope that the duo of Cinelu and Molvaer will be able to take this music to the world when some kind of normality eventually returns. The possibility of seeing these pieces performed live is certainly an exciting and intriguing prospect.