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Arohi - World Music for mind, body
& soul
"Very effective and impressive approach"
- Pt. Ravi Shankar
11/5/01
"The Arohi players... seemlessly combined elements
of jazz, Indian classical music and Brazilian rhythms with their
own stylistically unfettered improvising."
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Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times
12/3/01
"While world music has become the latest
thing with the use of exotic instruments in fusion or cross-over
music, what makes Arohi so special is that it's members are
not only consummate masters of their instruments, they are also
completely fluent in every language in which they speak. Arohi
plays not just with traditional instruments, but also with authentic
rhythms, tunings, phrasings and structure - the very soul of
the musical styles. If only the governments of our sweet planet
could converse as elegantly as these musicians - exchanging
the fruits of traditional culture and creating a global harmony
as pleasing as the sounds of Arohi! Maybe that is the highest
function of all great art, to remind us of what we share."
- John Schneider, Global Village, KPFK Los
Angeles 90.7 fm
4/10/02 |
Liän Ensemble, Light & Fire
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Blessing
(Listen to a sample, streaming audio)
This original composition is based on the raga from South
India, Hamsadwani. The melody is played on 9 string fretless
guitar and bansuri (Indian flute) accompanied by a traditional
South Indian rhythm section of mridangam (barrel drum),
ghatum (clay pot), and moorsing (jews harp). The
piece uses several Indian calculative rhythmic cadences called
tehai and koravai, which are played in unison
by the whole ensemble. This recording opens the Arohi
record to be released in 2001.
Personnel
Geetha Bennett - Indian vocal
Paul Livingstone - 9 string fretless guitar
Pedro Eustache - bansuri
Poovalur Sriji - mridangam
Leonice Shinneman - ghatum
Randy Gloss - riq
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The
Good Shepherd (Listen to a sample, streaming audio)
An exchange of solkattu (recitative rhythm) and percussion opens
this piece into a theme based on the night raga, Bagesrhi over
jazz harmonic structure. Pedro is featured with a bansuri solo
over a Brazilian samba groove.
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| Dream
Suite
- in 3 sections (Listen to a sample, streaming audio)
Proseta
se Jovka Kumanovka
Song
from Ohrid
Metevo
Oro
This contemporary world music suite encapsulates 3 Macedonian
folk songs with improvisational interludes. With instruments
and musical influences from the Middle East, Spain, India,
Mexico and Jazz the suite takes on a dreamlike state where
transitions flow mysteriously between time, places and moods.
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Mora the Merrier (Listen to a sample, streaming audio)
The Mora opens featuring the fretless 9 and bansuri playing
alaap, a meditative invocation of Raga Yaman Kalyan. The guitar
leads the ensemble through this up tempo composition, with
expanding and contracting rhythmic sequences and solos.
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| Amiya
(Listen to a sample, streaming audio)
This is a contemporary arrangement of a traditional melody
in the Raga Sindhi Bhairavi taught by Amiya Dasgupta, our
beloved guru who passed away in 1994.
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Turbans
Theme 1:15 (Real Audio format)
This short theme creates an interesting musical juxtaposition
between the Indian mridangam, bansuri, and fretless guitar with
the very American sounds of the banjo and nylon string guitar.
Personnel
Paul Livingstone - 9 string fretless & nylon string guitars
Pedro Eustache - bansuri
Poovalur Sriji - mridangam
Gary Spangler - banjo
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Turbans Jam 4:05
(Real Audio format 975kb)
The groove and simple chord changes give a buoyant western feel
to this recording. The melody and improvisation is on a raga
again from the South Indian tradition called Charukeshi.
Personnel
Paul Livingstone - 9 string fretless & nylon string guitars
Pedro Eustache - bansuri
Poovalur Sriji - mridangam
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Malkauns 2:36
(Real Audio format 608kb)
This night raga from North India is played as a solo on sitar
in the traditional style of alaap. Alaap is the invocation
of the spirit and mood of the raga and is the purest form raga.
The sitar is accompanied by the drone of the tanpura.
Personnel
Paul Livingstone - sitar & tanpura
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Arohi
- World Music for mind, body & soul. Featuring Geetha
Bennett, John Bergamo, Pedro Eustache, Leonice Shinneman, Poovalur
Srinivasan and Miroslav Tadic. Debut release by Paul Livingstone on
Sunrise Records, available May 18th, 2002. |
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Liän
Ensemble, Light & Fire |
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Turbans
Theme, Turbans Jam and Malkauns
were recorded for the award winning independent short film by Erika
Surat Anderson called "Turbans". |
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The complete Turbans soundtrack CD with these recordings and more
are available now. |
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purchase the Turbans cd please send $10 per CD + $3 shipping to:
Raga Jazz Music
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