Results for "Laraaji"

Laraaji

Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising experimental jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. He has since released albums for a variety of labels, often recording himself at home and selling the results as cassettes during his street performances. (from Bandcamp page)

Carlos Niño: More Energy Fields, Current

by Chris May
May 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based percussionist, producer and sometime radio DJ Carlos Niño is active in jazz and new age music. His new age work, though immaculately crafted, is of limited interest from an AAJ perspective. But his jazz projects repay close attention. An early landmark was Horace (Elephant, 2001), singer Dwight Trible's salute to pianist, bandleader and community ...

Laraaji: Through Luminous Eyes

by Mark Sullivan
January 11, 2021

Ambient/New Age veteran Laraaji is best known for his meditative electrified zither playing, His first broad exposure came with the Brian Eno-produced Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (Editions EG, 1980). Recently he returned to the piano--his first instrument--on Sun Piano and Moon Piano (Self Produced, 2020). Although he considers the EP Through Luminous Eyes to be ...

Through Luminous Eyes

By Laraaji

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Through Luminous Eyes 1; Through Luminous Eyes 2; Through Luminous Eyes 3; Through Luminous Eyes 4.

2020 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 7, 2020

Believe it or not, it is that time of the year again! The holidaze are barely over and a new edition of Winter JazzFest is upon us. Knowing a jazz marathon is the perfect antidote to the holiday shopping and social marathons, producer Brice Rosenbloom and his cohorts have put together a program of gargantuan proportions. ...

Vision Songs Vol. 1

By Laraaji

Label: Numero Group
Released: 2018
Track listing: Hare Jaya Jaya Rama I; Is This Clear? I; Interlude I; Om Namah Shivaya; Today Is This Magic Quality; Great Bells in the Morning; Interlude II; Hare Jaya Jaya Rama II; All of a Sudden; Om Tryumbacom; I Can Only Bliss Out (F'days); We Shall Be Lifted; Allah; Cosmic Joe; Laws of Manifestation; Who's in Love?; Is This Clear? II; Is This Clear? III.

Laraaji: Vision Songs Vol. 1

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 8, 2018

In 2017, the Luaka Bop label released WORLD SPIRITUALITY CLASSICS 1: THE ECSTATIC MUSIC OF ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA and at the beginning of 2018, the time has come to unearth another cosmic classic: Laraaji's album Vision Songs Vol. 1. It was originally released in 1984, four years after his formal breakthrough with the album Day of ...

Mark Lomax Trio: Isis and Osiris

by Dave Wayne
April 11, 2015

Record collectors and DJs are fond of the term “spiritual jazz." Like most colloquialisms, its meaning is nebulous and vague; more emotional than factual, more indicative of a feeling that the music projects, as opposed to a distinct lineage or coterie of musicians. For many, the term refers to jazz that incorporates African and Middle Eastern ...