In an impressive collaborative effort, rising Italian collective Aura Safari and legendary Finnish musician Jimi Tenor have teamed up on a brilliant new cosmic jazz-funk album on the Hell Yeah label, titled Sensory Blending.

This nine-track recording came about when Tenor was at Tangram in Perugia performing at a Hell Yeah party, and the day prior, met up in the studio with Aura Safari, who are local to the region. The session, which represented the first meeting between the two, resulting in nice mix of psychedelic jazz-funk, spacey grooves, dynamic percussion rhythms, souring horn solos, and soulful hypnotic vocals.

On the recording, Aura Safari is made up of bass, synth, guitar, and keys players Lorenzo Francioli, Ruggero Bonucci, Nicola Pitassio (appearing on drums), Andrea Moretti, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni and Nicholas Iammatteo, with Tenor playing saxophone, flute, keyboards, and providing vocals. The full-length also includes guest vocalist Toimi Tytti and percussionist Giuliano Pitassio.

Great from start to finish, this is an incredible blending of creative forward-thinking minds coming together to produce one of the year’s standout releases.

Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor — ‘Sensory Blending’
(Hell Yeah Recordings)

1. Bodily Synesthesia
2. Lunar Wind
3. Bewitched by the Sea
4. My Bluebell
5. Last Waltz in Perugia
6. Gimlet
7. It’s Too Easy to Love You
8. Your Magic Touch
9. Indigo

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• Cosmic
• Jazz
• Jazz Funk
• New Releases