The Sunray Project performances feature a guest artist drawn from a list of talented world music artists such as sitar maestro Indrajit Banerjee, Indian folk multi-instrumentalist Oliver Rajamani, Pakistani Sufi master musician Ghulam Farid Nizami, Persian vocalist & setarist Fared Shafinury, and others.
Influences
Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale, Stereolab, Earl Harvin, Aloke Dutta, Ali Akbar Khan, Govinda, Jon Brion, Radiohead, Zakir Hussain, Subash Chandran, Ganesh Kumar, Carmen Rizzo, Amon Tobin, Swapan Choudhuri, Morcheeba, Nigel Godrich, Trilok Gurtu, Portishead, Matt Chamberlain, Ram Narayan, Six Degrees Records, (electric) Miles, Shakti, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, MMW, Bjork, Heernt, Jef Stott, Led Zeppelin/Page&Plant, Bill Laswell, Beck, Bassnectar, Dimi Mint Abba, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ari Hoenig Trio, Massive Attack, Niyaz.
My name is Jason and I play drum set, tabla, kanjira, and dumbek and I'm also a producer. I perform every 2nd and 4th Thursday at Copa in Austin, TX under the name "Sunray Project" featuring different world music artists and myself on percussion and laptop improvising over loops that I create.
I also play with the world music band, Atash, out of Austin. http://www.atash.com.
The first featured song above is a remix of an Oliver Rajamani recording taken from his album "Forty Days". Rajamani wrote the song and sings and plays the oud on it. He is also a featured artist in the Sunray Project where he and I improvise live to loops I produce on laptop.
The second track is my latest remix of another Oliver Rajamani song which also features Nagavalli Medicharla on vocals.
The third track is a remix of a song off of Atash's first album. It's my first remix effort.
The fourth track, "Shambhu" is a selection from the new album by Darin Layne entitled "Left of Sunday Afternoon" (now available on itunes). The track features Roberto Riggio on violin and myself on tabla. It's a fun little bluegrass diddy in 15/8.
The last track is me trying to pull off playing guitar, tabla, and singing all the vocal parts to a Crosby, Stills, and Nash song for the fun of it.
The first video below is from a tv appearance I did with Darin Layne. The tune is called "Left of Sunday Afternoon" and was written by Darin.
The second video is an improvisational percussion piece performed at a special Atash concert called Global Harmony. It features Alseny Sylla on djembe, Abbos Kosimov on doira, Gouri Shankar on tabla, and myself on kanjira and drum set.
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
THIS TUESDAY October 13th at 9p Aaron Koppel Quartet,Kelli Rudick,S Joel Norman Tuesday, 10/13, 9p @Martyrs 3855 N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL 60613
The Aaron Koppel Quartet performing original music from "The Wild Call Of The Multi-Tasker" and their new album "Falling Together Falling Apart", covers by Radiohead and James Brown. New album will be available for purchase at the show. 21+ Cover $7
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how funny! neither of us invited the other to either birthday party! hope yours was as fun as mine! happy birthday! woulda been an excellent time to collect the mallet. cheers!
