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| Cendrine Cingala of SundRi Feeling. / Courtesy of Les Arts de l'Image, Reunion Island |
By John Redmond
The jazz-influenced band SundRi Feeling will return to Korea for a tour beginning at Strange Fruit in Seoul on Saturday.
"We were selected last year for a showcase at Seoul Music Week and played at the Daegu Jazz Festival," vocalist Cendrine Cingala said. "It was our first time in Korea and we loved it so much we wanted to come back."
They just released their second album, "Dancing Souls," on March 13. The 10-track album comprises of songs in French, English and Creole featuring Cingala's sensitive voice, with guitar and horn arrangements by multi-instrumentalist Richard Layan offering a subtle blend of jazz, pop, multicultural rhythms and poetry.
Bassist Sylvin Marc, known for collaborating with Nina Simone and Chris Rea, also appears on the album.
Cingala and Layan formed SundRi Feeling in 2011, releasing their first CD "Accord" in 2014.
Cingala, who is fluent in French, English, Creole, Spanish and Italian, writes all the lyrics, and composes the music with Layan.
The singer is often inspired by her family, "a living image of united colors and cultures, from the West Indies to Vietnam, Europe to Africa and India."
Her first official piano-jazz duet dates back to 1995 in France but the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean is where her vocal expression started to blossom, touring with Creole author-composer Jim Fortune in 2001.
Dancing is also part of her performance, from Afro-fusion to salsa, jazz to contemporary.
Layan plays guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn, Brazilian and Cuban percussion, mandolin, Dobro and lap steel among others.
With over 35 years of performing, including numerous trips to Brazil and Cuba, he gained experience in big bands as well as duos. He is fond of improvisation as well as arrangement.
His influences include Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Arturo Sandoval and Terence Blanchard.
Visit sundrifeeling.com or fb.com/SundRiFeeling for tickets and tour information.
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