''Rainbow Revisited'' is a collaborative studio album by South African musician Thandi Ntuli and American composer and producer

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, released on 17 November 2023, through Ndlela Music and

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. It received positive reviews from critics.

Recording

The album mainly consists of piano and Ntuli's voice, and was recorded in two days in a studio Venice Beach, California.

Critical reception

''Rainbow Revisited'' received a score of 83 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on four critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". ''

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'' called it "a brave, stand-alone release that lays her talent bare" and "a beautiful unreal entrancement you'll find hard to stop listening to again and again". '' Pitchfork''s Piotr Orlov felt that it "edits down such big-budget ambitions", calling the music "spare, laser focused on those incandescent gospel melodies that feel like a

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jazz birthright, and on ways to minimally ornament them for a broader, internationalist (Anthem and otherwise) audience". Ammar Kalia of '' The Guardian'' described it as Ntuli's "most minimal effort yet" as well as "a masterclass in the eloquent potential of the solo, a quiet storm of expression at Ntuli's new frontier of South African jazz". Thom Jurek of AllMusic wrote that "this glorious, vulnerable set offers pure collaborative inspiration at once strident and vulnerable, minimal, and aesthetically expansive" and felt that Niño's "layered

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sounds find Ntuli's synths offering various flute voicings and soothing unidentifiable sounds as she whisper/scats into the mysterious sounds".

Track listing

References

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