Everything that's best about this Toronto South Asian-flavoured band can be found in it's reinvention of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire" into a seven-beat fusion of Indian and jazz. The opening track, "So The Journey Goes," is a three-way play on blues, jazz and raga. Suba Sankaran's vocals are a treat on all 10 tracks. The rest of the band, playing on Western and Indian instrumnts, is sleek-maybe too much so. Autorickshaw launches the disc with a show Wednesday night at Lula Lounge. Top track: Aside from "Bird on a Wire", try the sci-jazz-tinged "Heavy Traffic."
-John Terauds