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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

New Jungle Orchestra

September 25, 2019
Reinbeckstraße 9, 12459 Berlin, Germany

Like England’s New Forest, Denmark’s New Jungle Orchestra is actually quite old. Founded nearly 40 years ago by guitarist Pierre Dørge, it remains youthful by nurturing, in its eponymous Ellingtonian soil, new seeds of rhythm and timbre from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and zany interior land masses yet to be mapped. —E.E.