For those unaware, Lebanese-Canadian drummer, composer, educator and producer Sanah Kadoura is thrilled to announce the March 3, 2023 release of her dynamic sophomore album Duality.

A follow-up to 2018’s critically-acclaimed Hawk Eyes, Duality focuses thematically on the balance between light and dark. Musically, the album traverses the modern jazz idiom with hints of neo-soul and a strong musical influence from Kadoura’s motherland of Lebanon.

Sanah is in prime company on this innovative release, joined by a diverse ensemble featuring top musicians from New York City and Canada. Kadoura’s impressive band includes Stacy Dillard on soprano saxophone, Rachel Therrien on trumpet and flugelhorn, Virginia MacDonald on clarinet, Joanna Majoko on vocals, Michael King on piano, Jonathan Michel on bass, Parham Haghighi on vocals, and Flavio Silva on guitar.

1. The Gemini’s (4:52)
2. The Seer, The Soarer (3:44)
3. Duality (4:40)
4. Hidden Realities (3:25)
5. Interlude - Old Friends (1:03)
6. When It’s Time (5:14)
7. Zaytoon (4:07)
8. Dijon’dres Deal (4:01)
9. Rise (Ft. Joanna Majoko) (5:16)

This smooth-as-silk new recording opens with the gradual harmonized growth within The Gemini’s and the sweepingly ornate The Seer, The Soarer and backs those up seamlessly with the glistening Duality, and then we get the feverishly fervent Hidden Realities.

A short, but sweet, hipsway-inducing Interlude - Old Friends is up next and is backed by the lush swoon found within When It’s Time, and they are in turn followed by the layered rhythms and melodies within the Eastern-imbued Zaytoon, the recording rounding out on the drum-tastic Dijon’dres Deal, closing on the simply magnificently soulful Rise (featuring Joanna Majoko).

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