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It may not appear until the fourth track in, but the propulsive "So Groovy" could easily have been the title for the follow-up to Manu Katché's award-winning ECM debut, 2005's Neighbourhood. Still, ...

Drummer Manu Katché's career has been a long, circuitous one that began in rock, working for an extended period with Peter Gabriel, Sting and Joni Mitchell. In the cases of Sting and Mitchell, there ...

Peter Gabriel hasn’t released a proper solo album in 20 years, but it’s looking like that’s going to change soon. The long-awaited follow-up to 2002’s Up may be here before the end of the year, ...

Katche grew up in the suburbs of Paris, the son of a Haitian French mother and an Ivorian father. He started studying piano when he was 7, and eventually went to the Paris Conservatory to study ...