Here’s a riddle for you: Picture Yma Sumac, Mozart, some Western hippies looking for Indian enlightenment, a couple of blazing hot Bollywood stars, a surf rock guitarist with accompanying surf goddess, a jazz saxophone player, a soaring coloratura soprano, and a very troublesome coyote.
Got that?
Now, all of them walk into a bar and order the same cocktail. What do they order?
A Bombay Rickey, of course.
Welcome to the land of respectful re-imagining, of shaking up, muddling, then clarifying. Good cocktails, after all, are a sum of ingredients that you perhaps wouldn’t think about throwing together, and in the right hands mixing oddly disparate musical flavors can yield a pretty darn colorful sound.
Kamala Sankaram, Drew Fleming, and Jeff Hudgins have the right hands and the right vocal cords for the job. The trio is the nucleus of the five-piece Brooklyn-based ensemble known as Bombay Rickey, along with percussionist Brian Adler and upright bassist Gil Smuskowitz. Their upcoming release Cinefonia (Cowboys & Indian; release: September 13, 2014, or Yma Sumac’s birthday) runs wild, far beyond category but without losing sight of the sources of the many musics they love.
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