Kindred Spirits is inspired by Zoe Rahman's discovery of the connections between Irish and Scottish folk music and the work of Bengali poet, composer and artist Rabindranath Tagore.[2] The album includes three tracks written by Rabindranath Tagore and Stevie Wonder's "Contusion".[3] Rahman wrote over half of the tracks [4]
John Fordham of The Guardian rated Kindred Spirits 4/5 and called the album "..a varied and widely appealing set..."[2] Martin Longley of BBC Music called the album "A set melding its varied constituents into a deeply personal final form."[3]ABC Online said of the album, it [sic] "stretches from ballads to McCoy Tyner-like muscularity and even a version of Contusion."[5]
Chris May of All About Jazz said of the album, "It all adds up to another bliss infusion."[4] Barry Witherden of Jazz Journal rated the album 4/5 and described it as a "McCoy Tyner style modalism, subcontinental raga and touches of Irish folk inspired by her [Rahman's] mother's Hibernian origins.[6] Chris Parker of The Jazz Mann called the album "A rich confection..."[7]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Down to Earth"
6:24
2.
"Conversation with Nellie"
5:31
3.
"Maya"
6:24
4.
"Forbiddance / My Heart Dances, Like a Peacock, It Dances" (Hridoy Amar Nache Re / Mana Na Manili)
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