Results for "Ranjit Barot"

Album

Indian HeARTbeat

By Henrik Andersen

Label: Fidus Records / EMI
Released: 2010
Track listing: Indian Heartbeat; Da Bombay Funk ; The Knight of Darkness ; It´s in you ; The Wake Up Call ; Dance of Fire ; The Entrance ; Heart of the rain ; Face of The Wind ; The Nirvana Express; I surrender

Article: Interview

Ranjit Barot: Beautiful Collision

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2010

Ranjit Barot is a well-known figure in India's music industry, where for many years he has written film scores, produced Indie pop, and, more recently, composed and directed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi. Barot, who spent the first 12 years of his life ...

Article: Album Review

Ranjit Barot: Bada Boom

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2010

It's a Big Bang alright--bada in Hindi means big--a project of some ambition which unites the finest Indian musicians with some of the best from the jazz and fusion worlds. Together, they conspire to articulate Indian drummer Ranjit Barot's primal scream as a composer, and it's a spectacular and beautiful explosion. Barot spent his first twelve ...

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Singularity

November 30, 2010

Album: Bada Boom
By Ranjit Barot
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Released: 2010
Duration: 08:00

Video

The Making of Bada Boom

Featuring the music of Ranjit Barot
Duration: 02:54
November 30, 2010

Promotional video on the making of Indian drummer/composer Ranjit Barot's debut as a leader, Bada Boom, released on November 16, 2010 on Abstract Logix Records. The album features a wealth of guests, including John McLaughlin, Wayne Krantz, Tim Garland, Gwilym Simcock and Matthew Garrison.

Article: Live Review

New Universe Music Festival: Day 2, November 21, 2010

by John Kelman
November 24, 2010

Day 1 | Day 2 The New Universe Music FestivalRaleigh, North CarolinaNovember 20-21, 2010 It's no small challenge to make a new festival viable, especially when it represents something of a niche within a niche. The attendance at the first day of the New Universe Music Festival was impressive enough, but ...

Article: Live Review

New Universe Music Festival: Day 1, November 20, 2010

by John Kelman
November 23, 2010

Day 1 | Day 2 The New Universe Music FestivalRaleigh, North CarolinaNovember 20-21, 2010 With so many jazz festivals taking place around the world--and new ones emerging each and every year--just as it's become increasingly challenging, in this world of DIY recordings, for artists to filter through and be heard, how ...

News: Interview

Drummer Ranjit Barot Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

November 30, 2010

Ranjit Barot is a well-known figure in India's music industry, where for many years he has written film scores, produced Indie pop, and, more recently, composed and directed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi. Barot, who spent the first 12 years of his life ...

Article: Album Review

Ranjit Barot: Bada Boom

by John Kelman
November 11, 2010

He was the rhythmic center of John McLaughlin's Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008)--an album that found the fusion guitar great exploring his decades-long interest in an east/west nexus from the electrified and harmony-centric angle of the jazz tradition, rather than the opposing angle of his longstanding and largely acoustic Shakti and Remember Shakti groups, which weighed ...

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Abstract Logix's Souvik Dutta Interviewed at All About Jazz

October 18, 2010

It's a remarkable story. Beginning life as an online shop for fusion music of the broadest possible variety, Abstract Logix has, since its first foray into releasing albums under its own imprint in 2005, rapidly grown into the preeminent record label on the fusion scene. With a roster that includes a number of established greats and ...