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Found Music

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2010
Track listing: On Broadway (Postcolonial Version); Saraswati; One Fine Day; Country Hustle; Rain; Messages From The Underground (Break On Through); So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star; Good Vibrations; Norwegian Wood; Famous Blue Raincoat Suite.

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This Is Not Fusion

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Layla Riff to Todi; Dotara; Summertime; Shree in Two Keys; Moral Education; Freewheeling Jog; Trucker; All India Radio; Berlin; Motz.

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Amit Chaudhuri: Found Music

Read "Found Music" reviewed by Chris May


Calcutta-born singer Amit Chaudhuri's follow-up to This Is Not Fusion (Babel, 2010) is another captivating and deeply idiosyncratic fusion/not fusion of Hindustani classical music, jazz, rock and blues. It's a style Chaudhuri, with several albums of “pure" Hindustani music already behind him, began developing in 2004 with the Amit Chaudhuri Band, which features his singing alongside ...

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Richard Fairhurst's Triptych: Amusia

Read "Amusia" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Amusia is the first album from Triptych, an international trio led by English pianist Richard Fairhust and also featuring Danish bassist Jasper Høiby and American drummer Chris Vatalaro. It's an impressive display of inventiveness and musicality. This is a virtuoso lineup. Fairhurst recorded his first album with the Hungry Ants in 1995 at ...

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The Golden Age Of Steam: Raspberry Tongue

Read "Raspberry Tongue" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The musicians who combine to make The Golden Age Of Steam are part of an energetic and vibrant community of young British jazz players who work together in a seemingly endless series of collaborations and collectives. All three are already BBC Jazz Award winners--reed player James Allsopp and drummer Tim Giles winning the 2008 award for ...

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Amit Chaudhuri: This Is Not Fusion

Read "This Is Not Fusion" reviewed by Chris May


Being opposed to musical fusion in 2010 is a bit like being opposed to digital technology. It appears rather ridiculous, for the comingling of global musical flavors is now practically the norm. It's not a norm shared by the Calcutta-born novelist and poet Amit Chaudhuri, who takes a contrary tack on This Is Not Fusion.

Album

By Proxy

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2009
Track listing: Advance; By Proxy; Mirrors; MBadgers; Lapdog; Munch; Partisans #1; Traitor; Prelude To A Kiss.

Album

Fill It Up With Ghosts

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2009
Track listing: Returns; Kesh; Sixes And Sevens; To Whom?; Rash; Fill It Up With Ghosts; Cow Dun.

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Big Air

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Wizard; Song For The Garlic Seller; Airlock; All Good Things; The Road, The Sky, The Moon; The Trap; Bracken.

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trioVD: Fill It Up With Ghosts

Read "Fill It Up With Ghosts" reviewed by Chris May


While Oliver Weindling's Babel label has recorded some of Britain's most lyrical and mellifluous artists, including vocalist Christine Tobin, guitarist Phil Robson and the post-bop mutationist band Polar Bear, it has also, true to its name, championed some of the country's most iconoclastic noise-jazz outfits, notably Acoustic Ladyland and Led Bib. Leeds-based trioVD, though ...


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