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By Quincy Jones

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2011

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By Jonas Hellborg

Label: Bardo Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Anchor, Mirror, Vehicle, Escape

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Hellborg, Lane, Umamahesh, Selvaganesh, Umashankar: Icon

Read "Icon" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 7, 2003

Last year's Personae was a fusion powerhouse, laying creative waste to all in its way. Not content to rest on his muse, über -bassist Jonas Hellborg has set out after the polyphonic and polyrhythmic music of India. Hellborg and long term collaborator Shawn Lane apply their synthetic method, meshing East and West with Indian vocalist V. ...

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Hellborg/Lane/Selvaganesh/Umashankar/Umamahesh: Icon

by Jim Santella
April 2, 2003

Music: the universal language. As civilizations developed around the world, music evolved alongside regional and cultural differences. The most basic of elements have always been there in common, but differences exist and continue to keep cultures apart. The human voice takes on various colors, even without language. Tuning may give one program preferences over ...

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Hellborg/Lane/Selvaganesh/Umashankar/Umamahesh: Icon

by Dan McClenaghan
March 10, 2003

Swedish-born bassist Jonas Hellborg--whose category-defying CDs have incorporated aspects of metal, jazz, fusion, Middle Eastern sounds, classical and punk--offers up Icon, music tinged with Sub-Continent sounds. He is joined by guitarist Shawn Lane, Indian percussionists V. Selvaganish and V. Umashankar, and Indian vocalist V. Umamahesh.Hellborg has played with John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra ...

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