As imaginative as Spirits might be, it seems to be second nature to Audu, who effortlessly meets the challenge to balance the varied influences of the project and a bold musical statement. Spirits will reward the listener with sensitive enough ears to embrace things that might be more complicated or varied, yet building on the familiar for a sense of belonging.
Jazz is currently undergoing a creative renaissance with a plethora of new talents stretching the music in all directions. Audu, with his nomadic experiential, and expansive musical world view, is an intrinsic and inseparable element of that.