"Unique and beautiful"
Into the Fire melds two distinct playing styles (in jazz based orchestra and Indian ensemble), and tackles three different compositions from similarly different aspects. The result is an album of beauty and diversity which should have a broad appeal. The title piece is the more commercial of the three, with both orchestra's joining forces to explore a more traditionally Indian composition. "Moras" is a more abstract composition which is very rhythmically based, and the final "The Ferryman", takes the abstraction further, by underpinning a contemporary jazz orchestra arrangement, with a gently hypnotic traditional Indian rhythmic foundation. Each is quite unique and beautiful, and shows just what can be achieved when musicians and composers of differing cultural backgrounds and musical schools truly open themselves up, one to the other, and let their imaginations find new ways of expression.
- Capital Q, May 2000
