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Arohi (Classical Indian & Raga Jazz)

General Info

  • Genre: Classical / Ghettotech / Showtunes

    Location LOS ANGELES, California, US

    Profile Views: 27514

    Last Login: 3/31/2010

    Member Since 1/30/2006

    Website www.tanpura.com

    Record Label ragajazz music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Check out my music blog ragajazz.blogspot.com ....HERE...... ....BUY VINAYA CD HERE...... .. Jugalbandi performance with Partho Sarodi and Abhijit Banerjee in Grass Valley.. .... .. .. .. .. ...... Paul Livingstone is an international performing artist, composer & ensemble leader. He performs in the creative tradition of Indian classical music, which he has played around the US, Mexico, Spain & South East Asia. ..Paul has dedicated himself to the sitar, studying & playing classical North Indian music for the past 20 years. Paul has learned from Amiya Dasgupta, Rajeev Taranath & the living legend Pt. Ravi Shankar...Paul also plays a number of fretless and world guitars some of which he has designed himself. He has studied diverse traditions of world music including jazz, Persian, Javanese, African, Macedonian & Brazilian music, which he incorporates into his own music. ..Paul has composed music for film, television & has released 2 cds of his own music Arohi & Salaam Suite. Paul will be releasing his 1st cd of purely Indian classical music this spring 2006. You can hear an except here. ....Pt. Ravi Shankar.. commented on his Arohi music as a, "very effective & impressive approach." Paul teaches music at Cal Arts & at the Sangeet School of World Music in Los Angeles. For more information go online to: www.tanpura.com.... .. .. .. .. ..
  • Members

    ..Paul Livingstone ..- sitar, fretless & fretted guitars & requintos.. ..Pedro Eustache ..- flutes, reeds & world winds.. ..Peter Jacobson ..- cello & bass....Abhijit Banerjee.. - tabla.. .. Dave Lewis ..- drums .... ..Guests & Past collaborating musicians:.. Lian Ensemble, Leonice Shinneman, Poovalur Sriji, John Bergamo, Nikki Campbell, Anand Bennett, Miroslav Tadic, Javier Vergara, Geetha Bennett, Randy Gloss, Jonathan Diamond, Chris ’Khal’ Moore, Dana Harlow, Leticia Meza
  • Influences

    Our deepest classical influences for this music... ..Allaudin Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nikhil Banerjee, Alla Rakha, L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Subash Chandran, Swapan Chaudhuri to name a few... .. Our favorite Indian crossover groups..... Shakti, Bracha, John McLaughlin, Trilok Gurtu & the Beatles ..(HEY who let those lads crossover into the US anyway?) .... .. .. .. ..
  • Sounds Like

    Well... lets see in a bragadocious world maybe it sounds a bit like our influences... ..Ravi Shankar, Shakti, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nikhil Banerjee, Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, Swapan Chaudhuri, L. Shankar, Bracha...

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Bio:

Check out my music blog ragajazz.blogspot.com HERE

BUY VINAYA CD HERE

Jugalbandi performance with Partho Sarodi and Abhijit Banerjee in Grass Valley



Paul Livingstone is an international performing artist, composer & ensemble leader. He performs in the creative tradition of Indian classical music, which he has played around the US, Mexico, Spain & South East Asia.

Paul has dedicated himself to the sitar, studying & playing classical North Indian music for the past 20 years. Paul has learned from Amiya Dasgupta, Rajeev Taranath & the living legend Pt. Ravi Shankar.

Paul also plays a number of fretless and world guitars some of which he has designed himself. He has studied diverse traditions of world music including jazz, Persian, Javanese, African, Macedonian & Brazilian music, which he incorporates into his own music.

Paul has composed music for film, television & has released 2 cds of his own music Arohi & Salaam Suite. Paul will be releasing his 1st cd of purely Indian classical music this spring 2006. You can hear an except here.

..Pt. Ravi Shankar.. commented on his Arohi music as a, "very effective & impressive approach." Paul teaches music at Cal Arts & at the Sangeet School of World Music in Los Angeles. For more information go online to: www.tanpura.com

Member Since:

January 30, 2006

Members:

Paul Livingstone - sitar, fretless & fretted guitars & requintos

Pedro Eustache - flutes, reeds & world winds

Peter Jacobson - cello & bass

Abhijit Banerjee - tabla

Dave Lewis - drums

Guests & Past collaborating musicians:

Lian Ensemble, Leonice Shinneman, Poovalur Sriji, John Bergamo, Nikki Campbell, Anand Bennett, Miroslav Tadic, Javier Vergara, Geetha Bennett, Randy Gloss, Jonathan Diamond, Chris ’Khal’ Moore, Dana Harlow, Leticia Meza

Influences:

Our deepest classical influences for this music...
Allaudin Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nikhil Banerjee, Alla Rakha, L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Subash Chandran, Swapan Chaudhuri to name a few...

Our favorite Indian crossover groups...
Shakti, Bracha, John McLaughlin, Trilok Gurtu & the Beatles
(HEY who let those lads crossover into the US anyway?) ..

Sounds Like:

Well... lets see in a bragadocious world maybe it sounds a bit like our influences...
Ravi Shankar, Shakti, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nikhil Banerjee, Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, Swapan Chaudhuri, L. Shankar, Bracha...

Record Label:

ragajazz music

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