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Returning to Vancouver after several years in Berlin, pianist Tyson Naylor leads a ritualistic, high voltage tribute to Louis Moholo-Moholo, the legendary drummer, composer, and pillar of South African Jazz. Though primarily associated with the creative music scenes of Vancouver and Toronto, the group’s members have strong ties to European free jazz and improv, and approach Louis Moholo-Moholo’s music as living repertoire: porous, political, and joyous. With acclaimed, Toronto-based alto saxophonist Karen Ng, JP Carter trumpet, Dan Gaucher drums, and James Meger bass, Naylor traces lines between South African liberation music, European free jazz, and Canada’s creative music scenes, while favouring collective risk, ensemble sound, and urgent, celebratory energy.