It’s a well known fact that Raya Brass Band’s live shows immediately set hands clapping and hips swaying, transforming a music hall into a riotous and carefree dance party. With their fourth record, RAYA, the madly skilled New York City based sextet delivers another concentrated dose of ecstatic brass abandon. RAYA serves up a winning set of nine original tunes with clear nods to countless traditions of celebratory music the world over: Balkan weddings, New Orleans street band parties, New York salsa, Basement Bhangra, and Ethiopian grooves
