Results for "Shakti"

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Article: Book Review

Follow Your Heart: John McLaughlin Song by Song

by Ian Patterson
March 12, 2011

Follow Your Heart: John McLaughlin Song by SongWalter KoloskySoftcover; 306 pagesISBN: 978-0-9761016-5-9Abstract Logix Books2010 The title of Walter Kolosky's guide to the entire compositional oeuvre of guitarist/composer John McLaughlin captures the essence of what makes McLaughlin tick. Whether alienating jazz purists at the ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Ranjit Barot: Bada Boom

Read "Bada Boom" reviewed by John Kelman

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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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Amir Perelman

by AAJ Staff
May 24, 2010

Meet Amir Perelman: Amir Perelman (42) has been playing string instruments since he was 15. He grew up in Israel and partly in the U.S., living in the Netherlands and France for ten years, where as an active musician he performed at various jazz clubs and festivals throughout Europe. He taught music at the Rotterdam Conservatory ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension: To The One

by Ian Patterson
April 23, 2010

John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension To The One Abstract Logix 2010 It's seems like a while since John McLaughlin recorded in such a stripped down context with a working band. Recordings such as Industrial Zen(Verve, 2006) and Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008) found the ...

Album

Shakti

By David S. Ware

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2009
Track listing: Crossing Samsara; Nataraj; Reflection; Namah; Antidromic; Shakti.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic: Live in Zagreb

by Nenad Georgievski
December 1, 2009

Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav TadicLive in ZagrebHarma2009 (CD & DVD) Creativity is something that cannot be forced and the most distinctive and rewarding artistic fellowships are those that follow a natural path to fruition. What brought together guitarists Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic 15 years ago was ...

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Article: Album Review

David S. Ware: Shakti

by Russ Musto
October 15, 2009

David S. Ware's Shakti, his first release since the dissolution of his longstanding quartet, is an outstanding addition to the saxophonist's already extraordinary discography. Ware is reunited with bassist William Parker (a member of the earlier quartet, who goes back to Ware's very first recordings as a leader), with veteran Warren Smith seated in the drum ...