Emma Rawicz's INKYRA

INKYRA is another ambitious and promising project by the still young and extremely productive exceptional artist Emma Rawicz. After making such a successful debut on the UK and European stages with CHROMA, she remains stylistically true to her stylistic home, modern jazz, but allows for musical influences and inspirations from genres as diverse as rock, fusion and singer-songwriter music.
The result is a completely unique new music that can unfold in any performance environment. The ensemble takes the form of a sextet, consisting of British heavyweights (the band occasionally performs as a quintet without flute).
The music of INKYRA is made up of effortlessly sing-along tunes and, as with most of Emma's music, craft and sophistication are ever-present in what she does, but never at the expense of joyful energy that so engages the audience. The music is characterized by breathtaking solos and virtuoso improvisations by the individual band members. Collective improvisations emerge from infectious grooves, and the band is not afraid to push boundaries in any genre, with an adventurous and creative spirit that is so characteristic of Emma's musical spectrum.