Arun Ghosh’s debut album,"Northern Namaste", released in 2008, showcases clarinet-led orchestration, currently under-exploited terrain within the contemporary jazz/world music lexicon. Utilising unorthodox time signatures, the vocabulary of raags, folk rhythms and hip-hop bravado, Northern Namaste displays a kaleidoscope of sounds - urgent, meditative, erotic and heartfelt. Whilst Arun’s playing encompasses the raw energy and aggression of Miles Davis’s Dark Magus, the sonic diversity of multi-reedsman, Yusef Lateef, and recalls the spirituality of both John and Alice Coltrane’s Indo-Jazz excursions, his cinematic arrangements cover territories travelled by Brian Eno, A R Rahman, and Abdullah Ibrahim. Yet, Arun Ghosh treads his own path, transcending traditional music genre boundaries, with a Mancunian swagger through jazz-noir aural landscapes to a new 21st Century global acoustic destination. With Arun Ghosh as ‘Pied Piper’, "Northern Namaste" represents the renaissance of clarinettist as lead man. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.