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'So
The Journey Goes' features the hypnotic
sub-continental vocal styling of Suba Sankaran
(daughter of master drummer Trichy Sankaran),
virtuoso bassist Rich Brown, tabla player
Ed Haley and versatile percussionist Debashis
Sinha with special guests: guitarists Kevin
Breit & John Gzowski, jazz drummers
Mark McLean, master percussionist Trichy
Sankaran, multi-instrumentalists George
Koller & Dylan Bell and a blistering
horn section from The Hannaford Street Silver
Band.
The
repertoire on the album is diverse, journeying from Leonard Cohen
to Bollywood, tabla solos to breakbeats and south Indian classical
to freestyle improv with multiple stops in between.
Highlights
include the title track 'So The Journey Goes', an autobiographical
song based in a bluesy South Indian raga, complete with a train
rap from a South Indian railway line; the 1970's Bollywood classic
'Aaj Ki Raat', featuring a horn section from The Hannaford Street
Silver Band playing an arrangement by the acclaimed British Bollywood
Brass Band; 'Manju Nihar', a north African-tinged Tamil folk song
with electric brass and gimbri; 'Nalina Kanthi', a new traditional
composition from master drummer Trichy Sankaran, commissioned by
Autorickshaw and 'Heavy Traffic', a multi-layered improvisational
work.
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LISTING: |
1.
So The Journey Goes
2. Manju Nihar
3. Bird on a Wire
4. Aaj Ki Raat
5. Chana
6. Vara Sapta Swara
7. Surya
8. Nalina Kanthi
9. Maa
10. Heavy Traffic |
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