Esteban Seunarine + The Kind Ghosts

Esteban Seunarine has built a musical language from everything he was never supposed to combine. The rhythms of the Caribbean and Latin America were the sound of his childhood home; the indie and folk scenes of the Canadian prairies were the sound of the city that claimed him. He didn't choose between them, and he still hasn't.

That refusal sent him to Brandon University, where he studied jazz performance under Eric Platz, Marika Galea, and Greg Gatien — and where he discovered the music that would reshape everything: the fearlessness of 1960s post-bop, the raw propulsion of 1970s jazz fusion, the hard-hitting groove and lyricism of 1990s hip hop.…

His drumming carries this history without being burdened by it. Simultaneously rooted and restless — hitting hard while moving fluidly — he draws on jazz, rock, folk, hip hop, electronic, Latin, and Afro-Cuban music in his playing, and pulls bands toward moments nobody planned for.…