Greetings from Kolkata (Calcutta).. I am here with a group of 5 students from Mexico City & Los Angeles for our first SANGEET YATRA (Indian classical music workshops & cultural tour) in West Bengal.
Hopefully this will be the many more group music adventures!
This year's highlights including some wonderfull firsts, 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 on my RagaJazzMusic blog.
Played an amazing concert with the inimitable Build an Ark
improvisational world/jazz orchestra at Royce Hall opening up for
McCoy Tyner. We have just released 'Love' cd & order for (US) vinyl LP!
I am now the music director at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena. We have incorporated Indian, Latin & African music in services there and presented 2 wonderful concerts this fall in the beautiful sanctuary. I will resume Sunday services (11am) beginning Jan 24th when we return from India.
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.
Check out the updated bio & press pages here with music from Salaam Suite cd. Enjoy this video below Mexico City concert!
God bless you & may you have peace within for 2010! ~ Paul Z
SUNDAY, Januart 24th, 7-8pm Arohi Ensemble with dance premiere of Tite Kata What digena 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 Fountain Theater
5060 Fountain Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90029-1422 www.fountaintheatre.com
(323) 663-1525
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
Check out our spring 2006 performance from REDCAT Theater downtown!
new CD & DVD releases!
'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.
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.
To order contact us at zpaulz@gmail.com
Pages from upcoming sitar instruction book
Peace & Music Shirts, Cards & Postage!
Salaam Suite
4 songs from my new cd &
info on My Space
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
Consummate tabla artist Shashanka Bakshi has performed
and taught the classical art of tabla for over 40 years. His performances as a tabla soloist and accompanist have taken him around India, Europe, Middle East, United States & Asia since 1986 with many of the greatest stars of North Indian music including Pt. Ravi Shankar, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Ustad Imrat Khan, Daya Shankar, Viswa Mohan Bhatt and Tarun Bhattacharaya. He has also played with the late greats such Pt. Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Bahadur Khan & Pt. VG Jog.
Shashanka learned tabla under the legendary Kanai Dutta and Samta Prasad among others and has performed in many of the prestigious music festivals in India such as Dover Lane in Calcutta and international music festivals around the world. Besides performing Shashanka is a committed teacher of the art is tabla for his numerous disciples in Los Angeles and around the world.
Sarodist Partho Sarathy in concert Sat. Aug. 23rd
with
Paul & Abhijit (India/US Jugalbandi Ensemble)
Partho
is one of the finest classical musicians from India and a disciple of the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar. His music embodies the true heritage of Hindustani raga music. His virtuosity on the sarod makes his exploration of ragas an exercise in harmony, tranquility and his serious meditative approach makes his music literally soar to unscaled height of fulfillment. Partho is based in Calcutta, the cultural mecca of India. He has been performing for the last 30 years in India and all over the world.
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
