Jungle By Night is a young Amsterdam band inspired by Nigerian afrobeat and jazz from Ethiopia. Although they only perform live for one year in 2011, it is nevertheless very fast with them. They have been the support act for , & , and their great example the Ethiopian jazz legend . Jungle By Night manages to approach the traditional afrobeat excellently by combining a tight rhythm section
… with a wind section that, like the wind section of the early Jamaican ska ensembles, does not play entirely cleanly. This revives the atmospheres of much African music from the seventies and eighties. From time to time the band is not always steady, the enthusiasm is all the greater. Even though Jungle By Night has only just started in 2011, they can easily compete with modern afrobeat colleagues such as the and the . (AD)more