Arohi (Classical Indian & Raga Jazz)
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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
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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.... .. .. .. .. .. -
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 HEREJugalbandi 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, 2006Members:
Paul Livingstone - sitar, fretless & fretted guitars & requintosPedro 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...
