Ajar – Chutney

Chutney is a group that formed in January 2020, where six friends gathered around a piano to jam out tunes and whilst munching on apple slices dipped in a jar of chutney. Four years and over a hundred gigs later, we are presented with Ajar of Chutney. As their name suggests, Chutney is a rich composite of disparate ingredients, bound by the folk usic of Jewish Eastern Europe, klezmer. As a degustation of folk, funk, reggae, disco, Latin, jazz, swing, Dixieland, pop, classical, musical theatre, circus and film, Chutney puts forward an amazing album that is Ajar. A spicy mix of instrumental and vocal, arrangements, and originals, and old and new sound, the thirteen tracks in the album represent a coming of age for Chutney: it is the band’s bar mitzvah – and listeners will not be let down when their music starts playing!