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Auntie Flo: In My Dreams (I’m a Bird and I’m Free) review | Global album of the month

Brian d’Souza’s genre-crossing curiosity takes him from propulsive disco to nursery-rhyme melodies and Tiësto-worthy trance

While opener Nightjar features poet Joshua Idehen expounding on the album’s theme of musical migration over ambient synths, the record soon veers, into propulsive Kenyan disco (Green City), Turkish nursery rhyme melodies (Çatlak Patlak), Brazilian berimbau (Freedom of Birds) and Korean traditional flute (Sandpiper). Green City mixes Afrobeat fanfares with euphoric piano house stabs, while Çatlak Patlak plays Turkish rhymes over a thumping post-punk drum groove, and Bird’s Eye View erupts from an offbeat pop melody into Tiësto-era trance synths. Dutch-Surinamese flautist Ronald Snijders releases a deeply funky fusion record in Penta (Night Dreamer), touching on the rock-solid groove of Weather Report with tracks like Basic Things, as well as exploring intricate Latin jazz arrangements through the clarity of his flute playing.

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