JERBOAH

Eclectic combination of jazz rock and art-pop from multinational quartet.

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THOSE WHO CLAIM to play without musical boundaries very rarely follow through on such declarations. But one group of musicians that seem to buck the trend are Amsterdam based quartet Jerboah. A live set by them feels like a trip through the history of popular music. Not that the band are entirely free of labels, as EWI (electronic wind instrument) player Dodó Kis explains: “We describe ourselves as genre bending worldbeat and post-pop.” Jerboah’s instrumentation is highly unusual. Guitar and drums combine with the recorder and vocal talents of Brit Sarah Jeffery, while Kis’ EWI provides both bass lines and synth-style solos. This unexpected configuration evolved from the band’s original 2014 line-up, which was augmented in 2016 when Kis and Argentinian drummer Marcos Baggiani joined. It was this ensemble that…

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