After a two years or so (?) developing our sound, composing originals and arranging music by others, Sawaari, the quintet I co-lead with Mike Rivard (Club d’Elf), Amit Kavthekar (Zakir Hussein, Shahid Parvez Khan, Amjad Ali Khan), Andy Bergman (The Macrotones) and Fabio Pirozzolo (Newpoli, Çeşni Trio), finally releases our first live-in-the-studio video!

“Neqsha” is a traditional Gnawa piece that Mike arranged and brought to the band. Hope you dig it!

“Neqsha” (trad. / arr. Mike Rivard)

SAWAARI
Jussi Reijonen - oud | Andy Bergman - flute | Mike Rivard - sintir | Amit Kavthekar - tabla | Fabio Pirozzolo - calabash

Live studio recording, August 2019.