A beautiful film I composed music for 'Kavi' by Gregg Helvey about child slavery was
nominated for an Oscar in the shorts category this year!
We completed our first SANGEET YATRA (Indian classical music workshops & cultural tour) in West Bengal with 5 students from Mexico City & Los Angeles. The great success of this first trip has inspired us
to work to make this an annual part of our Sangeet programming
and visit Kolkata (Calcutta) every Dec/Jan.
Last year's highlights included a concert in NYC at the beautiful Rubin Museum and lectures at Yale in the departnents of music & religion.
You can hear secments of the Yale lectures on Indian raga music
here on my RagaJazzMusic blog.
Have been playing with the amazing & inimitable Build an Ark
improvisational world/jazz orchestra several concerts including
Royce Hall opening up for McCoy Tyner.
I am now a resident musician at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church
in Pasadena. We have incorporated Indian, Latin & African music in services there and are presenting concerts & classes in the beautiful sanctuary. Sunday services at 11am are led by the Rev. Clyde Grubbs.
We are now planning our 8th year of Indian music & Raga Jazz Summer Workshops in Mexico City, for end of July, beginning of August, 2010.
A cd of evening melodies (Marwa, Vatchaspati & Anandi Kalyan), you can purchase tracks from this disc here and watch video from the concert here on on my RagaJazzMusic blog.(scroll down below recent entries)
Check out the updated bio & press pages here with music from Salaam Suite cd. Enjoy this video below Mexico City concert!
God bless you, striving for peace within & without in 2010! ~ Paul Z
SUNDAY, March 14th, 3pm Afternoon Ragas
House concert featuring: Paul Livingstone ~ sitar
Nitin Mitta ~ tabla
5447 Dahlia Dr. (north of Hill Dr.)
Eagle Rock, CA 90041
$15 donation
(tea & somosas for intermission)
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SATURDAY, March 27th, 6:30pm AROHI Ensemble
featuring: Paul Livingstone ~ sitar & fretless guitar
Peter Jacobson ~ cello
Javad Butah ~ tabla
Dave Lewis ~ drums
$10-15 suggested donation
(for concert)
As part of the... Practicing Shalom
A two day Multi-Faith Peace Retreat
March 27th & 28th
Holy Nativity Episcopal Church
6700 West 83rd Street, Westchester, CA 90045
with visiting leaders from India Fr. Prashant Olalekar (Jesuit from Mumbai)
Sr. Margaret Gonsalves (Carmelite Sister, Vedruna)
For more information on the retreat contact:
Margie Wakeman Wells (310) 670 4777 holynativity@sbcglobal.net
SATURDAY, April 10th, 5pm IN CELEBRATION OF MAESTRO PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR & his 90th birthday (April 7th) featuring: Paul Livingstone ~ sitar
tabla to be announced...
at the home of Jan Steward in Los Feliz
$15 (concert) $20 (with dinner) donation
A retrospective musical journey of
PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR Join us on the air at 90.7 fm
with Carlos Nino & Paul Livingstone
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FRIDAY, January 29th - Colorado Springs Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Arohi Ensemble perform live music for dance in Twist of Taal
featuring dancers: Cynthia Lee & Shyamala Moorty In an exploration of contemporary asthetics through traditional
Khatak rhythms, ragas forms in a ragajazz format.
Arohi Ensemble perform live music for dance and
a
full set of orignal raga jazz music! Paul Livingstone ~ sitar & fretless guitar
Peter Jacobson ~ cello
Javad Butah ~ tabla
Dave Lewis ~ drums
Sitar Talim is a high quality sitar instructional book with practice cd. Talim is the passing
of knowledge & I believe this book will become an invaluable resource for students of sitar. Questions contact me at zpaulz@gmail.com
Pages from sitar instruction book
Peace & Music Shirts, Cards & Postage!
Salaam Suite
4 songs from my new cd &
info on My Space
'Indonesia
Postmodern' is a collection of film music on which I performed sitar & requinto with gamelan instruments, with funds going
towards rebuilding the ISI Arts Institute that was destroyed by the recent
earthquake in Java.
I composed & performed the Indian music
for this new Albert Brooks film released on Jan 20th. Azam
Ali (voice), Pedro (bansuri), Jagan (violin), Abhijit (tabla),
Hom Nath (tabla & tarang), Peter (cello) worked with
us on the music with composer Michael Giacchino 'The Incredibles'.
A hilarious story of what happens when the U.S. Government
sends comedian Albert Brooks to India and Pakistan to find
out what makes the over 300 million Muslims in the region
laugh. It's a funny flick that wouldn't get released by Sony
because of fears of the word Muslim in the title. The website
for the film www.lookingforcomedy.com
Salaam Suite
cd
My new cd called 'Salaam Suite' is now available. a collection
of songs & instrumentals calling for unity, awareness,
peace & justice is now available. Members of Ozomatli,
Quetzal & Kan Zaman Ensemble are featured on the new
recording. www.myspace.com/salaamsuite
To order the full length Salaam Suite cd
from CD Baby for only $12.97 please click
here
Ozomatli 'Street
Signs' wins Grammy
Ozo won their 2nd grammy award on Street Signs.
I played sitar on the track 'Believe'. Look for their
newest cd to be released soon!
LA Music Week
Award
On Dec 15th I received an award from LA Music Week’
and certificate of appreciation from the City of Los Angeles
from District #1 Councilman Ed Reyes.
The award & certificate are “In appreciation
of your pioneering music in our community and dedicating
your life in teaching the rich multicultural heritage of
music to our youth, therefore making our city a better place
in which to live.”
Jugalbandi Concerts
I have been playing several sitar & violin jugalbandi
concerts
with A Grade All India Radio artist Jaganathan Ramamoorthy.
Indonesia & APPEX
Paul spent the summer of '04 on an APPEX Fellowship in
Bali and also visited Jogyakarta in Central Java to celebrate
the 100th birthday master musician & teacher of Pak
Chokro. APPEX was a wonderful collaborative creative experience
with an amazing group of puppeteers, dancers and musicians
from India, Philippines, Malaysia, Java, Bali & US.
Foundation for Self Suffiency in Central America
I took my daughter Isabela
to El Salvador for the Zone of Peace Tour. Check out
thsi great organiztion 'Center for Self Sufficiency in Central America' www.fssca.net & their Meso-American Peace Project.
Prayer for the New Year
Dear Creator Lord,
May we find in man today those who proclaim you bravely
in love…
not in fear & hate.
May we build up those who stand firm in the truth…
not deceiving with double talk.
May we teach unity of humankind…
not blinding ourselves with divisive nationalism.
May we stand for justice… and lift our voices against
oppression & inequality.
May we work daily for peace… opposing the machineries
of war.
In the face of all calamities and injustice…
May we trust that you will reveal in us a great light and
your Spirit of unconquerable love.
Paul Z.
You are listening to:
Raga Ragashee (video below)
live concert from Mexico City
Raga Mala paintings on exhibition at Norton Simon Museum Ragas & Rasas concert August 8th, 7pm
Paul is performing at Norton Simon
Museum with Shashanka Bakshi - Kolkata, India
Sarodist Partho Sarathy I toured West Coast & Mexico
with
Abhijit Banerjee (India/US Jugalbandi Ensemble).
Partho
is one of the finest classical musicians from India and
a senior disciple of the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Parthoda was also an integral part of out Sangeet Yatra experience this past winter in Kolkata!
India/US Jugalbandi Trio
Vinaya cd released Paul performs on sitar
Raga Puriya Dhanashree,
Raga Kedar & Raga Durga
accompanied by Vinayak Netke
from Mumbai
on tabla
Oscar Nominated Film Kavi
