| Kindred Spirits | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Zoe Rahman |
| Cover: | Zoe Rahman - Kindred Spirits.jpg |
| Recorded: | Spring 2011 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Manushi Records |
| Producer: | Zoe Rahman |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Title: | Unison |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
Kindred Spirits is the fifth studio album by English jazz composer Zoe Rahman, released on 23 January 2012 by Manushi Records.[1]
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]
The album was recorded in spring 2011.[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 "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]