[TR24][OF] Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest - Sylva - 2015 (World Fusion, Jazz-Funk)

The Grammy Award-winning jazz collective Snarky Puppy & Holland’s famous Metropole Orkest have created Sylva, a dreamlike cinema-concept-album dedicated to the forest, a place that enraptures bandleader/founder Michael League, who penned the songs.
Snarky Puppy is a collective of musicians in Dallas and New York City playing an infectious mixture of jazz, funk, and world music. Music to move the brain and booty.
The once Texan, now New York-based quasi-collective has gone from the best-kept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music. Although still “underground” in many respects, the band has earned high praise from critical stalwarts like the BBC, Village Voice, Guardian, and Boston Herald, and has performed at some of the best venues and festivals in Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.
Snarky Puppy seamlessly fuses a deep knowledge and respect for musical tradition with sonic and conceptual innovation in a way that is able to reach the most critical- or most carefree- audience. The convergence of musicians from white and black America, which occurred while the band was in its adolescence at the University of North Texas, has naturally established a system of balance that instantly draws listeners to the music- raw funk and sensitive dynamics, relentless pocket and lyrical melodicism, lush harmony and soulful simplicity, and most importantly, a delicate mixture of composition, harmony, melody and improvisation.