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Kinsmen

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Introspection; Ganesha; Rez-Alap; Longing; Snake; Carlo-Alap; Kalyani; Kadri-Alap; Kanya-Alap; Convergence (Kinsmen).

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Rudresh Mahanthappa / Kadri Gopalnath: Kinsmen

Read "Kinsmen" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Kinsmen is the physical actualization of a long path that started with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's desire to create a music that is a hybrid (not a fusion) of American jazz and classical Indian Carnatic music. Improvisation is central to both aesthetics with differing emphases, embodied primarily in the playing of Mahanthappa and alto saxophonist Kadri ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa: Kinsmen

Read "Kinsmen" reviewed by J Hunter


It's hard to know what key will open a locked door. For Rudresh Mahanthappa, the door was his desire to meld the compositional and improvisatory esthetics of jazz and Indian classical music. Mahanthappa's key arrived when his brother gave him a post-recital gag gift: A CD by legendary Indian musician Kadri Gopalnath called Saxophone Indian Style ...


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