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Garaj Mahal: More Mr. Nice Guy

Read "More Mr. Nice Guy" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


There is different, and there is distinct. Either can describe More Mr. Nice Guy by Garaj Mahal, although the latter is probably more telling. Several genres of music are mixed, matched and pushed around in this effort. Garaj Mahal features guitar and sitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, bass master and educator Kai Eckhardt, gospel-inspired keyboardist ...

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Garaj Mahal: More Mr. Nice Guy

Read "More Mr. Nice Guy" reviewed by AAJ Staff


American funk, jazz, African-based rhythms and Middle Eastern modalities are all part of the collective sound of Garaj Mahal's More Mr. Nice Guy. That, perhaps, is the “nicest" characteristic of this CD, where there's a multitude of voices sounding from the corners of our blue marble--although “smoking hot" might be a better description. Reminiscent of Return ...

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Moog Music Presents Garaj Mahal's "Discovery", Showcasing the Moog Guitar

Moog Music Presents Garaj Mahal's "Discovery", Showcasing the Moog Guitar

DISCOVERY: Garaj Mahal and Fareed Haque Present The Moog Guitar When top musicians play innovative instruments, magic happens ASHEVILLE, N.C. (March, 2010) - Take the guitar considered by many to be the most innovative instrument of the decade; put it in the hands of a musical visionary and you're sure to embark on a voyage of ...

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Garaj Mahal's "More MR. Nice Guy" Released on Owl Studios

Garaj Mahal's "More MR. Nice Guy" Released on Owl Studios

There is always something new and progressive coming from Garaj Mahal. Featuring guitar and sitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, world-renowned bass master and educator Kai Eckhardt, gospel-inspired funky jazz keyboardist Eric Levy, and newly-added drummer/vocalist Sean “the Rick" Rickman, Garaj Mahal creates a sound that's always growing and always smoking hot. Since their formation in 2000, Garaj ...

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Garaj Mahal: Woot

Read "Woot" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Garaj Mahal is a strange and colorful bird. It's music draws heavily from '70s fusion, with elements of everything from the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever to Weather Report, as well as progressive rock bands in the broadest sense of the term. To this already potent mix where, needless to say, high octane musicianship is ...

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Blueberry Cave

Label: Harmonized Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Shadow; Alvin; Blueberry Cave;

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Garaj Mahal: Blueberry Cave

Read "Blueberry Cave" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


The fifth studio release from this San Francisco quartet embodies the modern instrumental jam band movement and preserves the freewheeling legacy of 1970s progressive rock along the way. Alan Hertz (drums), Eric Levy (keyboards), Kai Eckhardt (bass), and Fareed Haque (guitar) came into Garaj Mahal from varied backgrounds: Eckhardt played in John McLaughlin's trio, ...

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Mondo Garaj

Label: Harmonized Records
Released: 2003

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Live, Vols. 1-3

Label: Harmonized Records
Released: 2003

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Garaj Mahal: Live, Vols. 1-3

Read "Live, Vols. 1-3" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Individually and in combinations, the members of Garaj Mahal - Eric Levy (keyboards), Alan Hertz (drums), Kai Eckhardt (bass) and Fareed Haque (guitar) - have accompanied Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, Steve Smith's Vital Information, and the John McLaughlin Trio. These three simultaneous (individually packaged) live sets fish with hip young bait in the hopes ...


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