Iness Mezel: Beyond the Trance – review

(Wrasse Records)Iness Mezel has perfect credentials for a fusion artist. Her mother is French-Italian, her father is Algerian and she was brought up in Algeria and France, where she listened to disco and funk, and studied piano, singing and jazz improv. Perhaps more importantly, she came to the attention of Justin Adams, our finest exponent of African-blues fusion styles, who produced this set and provided much of the instrumental work on guitar, banjo and the north African gimbri lute. Mezel wr...

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