South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane sees making music and improvising as a form of travel. Through music and imagination, imaginary maps are created. However, physically he also made a great journey, from the city of Durban in the South African region of KwaZulu-Natal to Norway. Isambulo was therefore created with a band of European jazz musicians. It offered Sikhakhane, whose tone is as
… powerful as it is warm, the opportunity to travel in all directions musically. Hypnotic spiritual and modal jazz can thereby evolve into frenetic free jazz reminiscent of big cities. In the vocal, in Zulu sung uNangoma, also musically his background is immediately clear. But Sikhakhane shows on the strong and varied Isambulo that he is above all a world traveler in jazz. (MR)more
