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Hellborg, Lane, Umamahesh, Selvaganesh, Umashankar: Icon
by C. Michael Bailey
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. ...
Hellborg/Lane/Selvaganesh/Umashankar/Umamahesh: Icon
by Jim Santella
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 ...
Hellborg/Lane/Selvaganesh/Umashankar/Umamahesh: Icon
by Dan McClenaghan
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 ...
Personae
Label: Bardo Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Time is the Enemy; RAG B/B; Personae; Heretics; Hell Is Other People; Rice With the Angels.
Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane and Jeff Sipe: Personae
by Jim Santella
Recorded during a live appearance in Mainz, Germany and composed by bassist Jonas Hellborg with Shawn Lane, the program asks the question, “Is modern music really a universal language, or does one musical persona differ too much from the next?" How do hard rockers fit into a Jazz scene? How do Country & Western ...
Hellborg / Lane / Sipe: Personae
by C. Michael Bailey
Caution! This is not the same Jazz Your Parents listened to. In the mid-1970s, Jeff Beck ruled the world with Blow by Blow and Wired. These two hard fusion recitals went a long way to completing what Miles has started and Return to Forever and Weather Report perfected. Now, if one were to take that musical ...
Good People, In Times Of Evil
Label: Bardo Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Aga Of The Ladies; Savitra; Leaf Souvenir; Bhakti Ras; Who Would You Like To Be?; Uma Haimavati.
Hellborg/Lane/Selvaganesh: Good People In Times of Evil
by Todd S. Jenkins
Virtuoso bassist Jonas Hellborg first came to wide public attention in 1984 when he was selected by John McLaughlin to join the revamped Mahavishnu Orchestra. Since that time he has carved a name for himself as a premier fusion bass artist, deftly blending world musics with jazz and rock elements. Despite a critically acclaimed partnership with ...
Jonas Hellborg: Good People, In Times Of Evil
by Mark Corroto
Is Jonas Hellborg the Swedish Bill Laswell? Maybe. The bassist has a grounded, driving funk/world/jazz attack like Laswell and his music mixes Eastern and Middle Eastern influences for color. But unlike Laswell, Hellborg’s music rarely overshadows the flavors he introduces. His reserved, yet slamming signature is once again displayed on this trip to a very urban ...
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