Results for "Kalimba"

Ian Dogole

Born: 1955

Born in Philadelphia, PA, Ian Dogole began his musical journey at age four, studying piano and then switched to guitar at age seven. After growing up on soul and rock music, Ian discovered Jazz, especially Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra (among many), and their influences remain strong to this date. In high school outside of Philadelphia, Ian was exposed to Chinese and Indian classical music by his instructor, Roman Pawlowski. This was the point in which Ian's passion for Jazz and his newfound love of "World" music intersected. As a major in Ethnomusicology (and Classics) at Brown University, Ian delved more deeply into the indigenous music cultures of the planet, while maintaining his fascination with the evolution of Jazz

Organic Pulse Ensemble

Organic Pulse Ensemble is a band consisting of just the one member, multitracking every instrument in his home-studio. He started out on turntables though, scratching and making beats. Through sampling old vinyl records from his fathers collection, and starting to collect for himself, he developed a love of jazz, soul and funk. In his twenties he started incorporating live instruments into his beatmaking, beginning with an electric bass and a drum kit. Along with some friends, more instruments was added to the mix and the hip-hop influence was somewhat obscured by that of Sun-Ra and labels like Black Jazz and Strata-East

Kalimba

By Joachim Kuhn

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: A Live Experience; Hambouchi; Good Mood; Kalimba Call; Youmala; Rabih's Delight; Dahin; Sabbatique; Dounia; White Widow.

Joachim Kuhn and Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba

by John Kelman
August 8, 2007

While it's easy to categorize the assimilation of diverse musical cultures as world music, the term has become over-utilized and often misrepresented. German-born pianist Joachim Kühn, Moroccan guimbri/oud player Majid Bekkas and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez intersect on Kalimba, an album that should dispense with oversimplified categorization. Instead, assessed on its own merits as an album ...

Joachim Kuhn & Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba

by Chris May
June 2, 2007

Like the spectacular bouffant hairstyle he's sported since the 1970s, pianist Joachim Kuhn's music is at home in two, generally discrete traditions: intellectually rigorous, harmonically complex, longhair conservatoire music and a less cerebral strand of world jazz driven by vamps and grooves. Sometimes Kuhn keeps the two traditions apart--as on his classically oriented solo albums--at other ...