Jazz Articles about Surya Botofasina

About Surya Botofasina

Album Review

In the early 1980s, Alice Coltrane built an ashram on fifty acres in the Santa Monica hills. A space for musical practise and Hindu studies, it closed in 2017 and was burned down by wildfires a year later. As a child, Surya Botofasina grew up there with his mother amid mountains, veggie food, peace lessons and devotional chants. For this album, he returns in spirit to the childhood home that still inspires him. Ashram Sun was produced by ...

Radio & Podcasts

Surya Botofasina, Tom Skinner, More Better, Jakob Bro, Joe Lovano & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 27, 2022

Tributes to Abdul Wadud, Paul Motian, Albert Mangelsdorff and Johnny Hodges, the power of post-production, the music meditations of Surya Botofasina and more, in this wide-ranging edition of Mondo Jazz. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Tom Skinner “The Journey" Voices of Bishara -EP (Brownswood) 0:16 Host talks 5:15 Chelsea Carmichael “Bone and Soil (Shabaka Hutchings Remix)" The River Doesn't Like Strangers (Native Rebel) 7:15 Host talks ...