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Danny Keanes long apprenticeship with some of the worlds greatest artists ndash Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, Mulatu Astatke ndash has given him a profound musical grounding from which to create his own unique musical vision. Drawing on a rich and varied career, Roamin is a thrilling coming together of a lifetimes worth of ideas and influences. Bursting with flavours of jazz, Indian folk traditions, African rhythms, European classical and contemporary dance music, Danny Keane traverses many genres and geographies pulling them all together into a unifying, dizzying whole. In a sense, with Roamin Danny has rewritten musical boundaries creating a soundscape all of his own. At the same time, hes captured the diverse sounds of urban London right now ndash a sonic melting pot as visceral, challenging, vibrant and celebratory as the city itself.Roamin represents the cutting edge of new, emergent urban music. Jazz is at its core, but its much more than that. Its an unfolding genre, a joyous hubbub of musical storytelling, a thousand human conversations at once crackling with the energy of a North African souk or Dalstons Ridley Road market. Its a confident, outwardlooking, giant community of sound. Indeed the social and community aspects of music have always deeply resonated with Danny. He grew up steeped in the Irish folk heritage tradition and feels keenly that music has to connect on a deeply human level that it speaks to the reality of peoples lives. Dannys decadeslong classical training has also given him a virtuosic technique. He has studied the rules intensely, so that he may break those rules intentionally.1. Olomouc2. Twenty Tonnes of Tension3. Flight 194. Roamin5. Suspended Memory6. Addis7. Igor8. The Water Is Wide9. Afro Cello10. Ajoyo11. I Am Analogue Danny Keane Bundle is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £28 +P&P