Asha Parkinson: Kalpadruma Ensemble

Asha Parkinson’s wonderful Kalpadruma Ensemble is a filmic global 14-piece studio orchestra bringing together jazz quintet, string quartet, woodwind, voice and the distinctive sound of the qanun playing powerfully melodic, rhythmically sophisticated, often groove-based material. Asha’s vibrant, genre-busting second album, Possession, blurs the boundaries between jazz, contemporary classical, Flamenco, Mediterranean and Arab musics to find its own unique, deeply resonant voice. Subjects range from obsessive love to urban trance to mystical inspiration to devotion and beyond.