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Kiran Ahluwalia at the Mint
With just a few notes and melodies, music has the ability to transport listeners across the world. At Indo-Canadian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia’s Monday performance at the Mint, she stoked up fiery wanderlust with sounds of Portugal, North Africa and India, enveloping the audience in the currents of her cross-cultural style.
Ahluwalia presented flavors of updated Indian folk songs and Sufi poetry, singing in the playful cadences of Urdu and Punjabi. She also dished out the pulsing rhythms of North African tuareg music found on her latest album, “Aam Zameen,” which features collaborations with Saharan bands Terakaft and Tinariwen. Her transcontinental sound is powered by a four-piece band of bass, guitar, tabla and the harmonium, a hand-pumped organ. But at the center of the slightly jazzy, hybridized music is Ahluwalia’s voice.
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