John & Alice Coltrane, Miriam Makeba, Hamza El Din, Bobby Timmons, Errol Garner, Bartok, Stravinsky, Aretha Franklin, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Ornette Coleman, Machaut, Gregorian Chant, Oum Kalsoum, Donald Rafael Garrett, Akagunduz Kutbay, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, Harry Belafonte, Al Jarreau, Laura Nyro, Thelonius Monk, Reverend Frank Wright, The Staple Singers, among a great many others...
Sounds Like
John & Alice Coltrane, Charles Gayle, David S. Ware, Sam Rivers, North Indian Music, Arabic Music, unique...
KALI. Z. FASTEAU: Composer & Multi-Instrumentalist - Soprano Saxophone, Nai & Shakuhachi Flutes, Piano, Voice, Cello, Drums, Sanza, Mizmar, & Violin.
She has recorded 15 albums as a leader, 12 on her own label, Flying Note. Kali. Z. is an internationally acclaimed innovator in World Jazz. She comes from a musical family and played piano, cello, flute and voice from early childhood in Paris and New York. She studied the music of Asia, Africa, 20th century Europe, and Jazz in Graduate School at Wesleyan U. Traveling for 14 years, she lived and performed in 16 countries on 4 continents, including 2 years in India, a year in Turkey, and Morocco, Senegal, Nepal, Congo, Italy, France, Holland, Haiti, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, Greece and America. Ms. Fasteau has performed in thousands of music festivals, concerts, radio and TV shows, film soundtracks and university programs. Kali. Z. has led ensembles at New York's Town Hall, Lincoln Center and Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Museum Theater in Chennai, India, Boston Center for the Arts to name a just a few of the noted venues that she has filled with her music.
Her recording and performing associates include Jazz titans Donald Rafael Garrett, Kidd Jordan, Archie Shepp, William Parker, Rashied Ali, Beaver Harris, Hamid Drake, Joe McPhee, Bobby Few, Joseph Jarman, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Noah Howard, Chris McBride, Oscar Brown III, Sabir Mateen, and many others.
Website: www.KALIMUSE.com. Publishing Company: ZENJIN Music (SESAC). Record Company: FLYING NOTE Records.
Some Press Raves:
"Part of New York's original free-jazz scene, Kali has a fierce dedication to the music and pure, forceful, exploratory sound. She blends cultures and tones...It's world music as constant rapture." The NEW YORK TIMES.
"Calling Fasteau 'a composer and multi-instrumentalist' is like calling Einstein 'a clever little guy.'" The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.
"I give this 5 stars...This is beautiful!" Cassandra Wilson, DOWNBEAT.
"Fasteau plays with agility and grace, with precision and freedom, with driving force and haunting beauty." SIGNAL TO NOISE.
"This woman is one of the music's pioneers, and one of the few to have so consistently maintained and expanded her vision." JAZZ NOW.
"Fasteau's powerful free improvisations extend the legacy of John Coltrane, with her own distinct exploratory voice and luxurious sound." JAZZIZ.
"A masterpiece in Fasteau's rich gallery of work, her astonishing multi-instrumental and vocal improvisations balance intricate pulsating rhythms with deep-rooted melodies. She is the avant-garde's Joan of Arc." SONICNET.
"Multi-instrumentalist improv-goddess Kali. Z. brings it all full circle. This is truly wonderful music. Highest recommendation!" OTHER MUSIC.
"Fasteau has mastered the searing energy language of her male free jazz peers, yet she has her own unique sound. Her sax playing, alongside William Parker, Joe McPhee and Daniel Carter, is every bit as robust as her formidable compatriots." The WIRE.
KALI. Z. FASTEAU is currently available for Festivals, Concerts, Film Soundtracks, and Recordings, with solo, duo, trio, quartet & quintet ensembles. She also conducts Seminars and Workshops on World Music and Spontaneous Composition.
KALI. Z. on FLYING NOTE CDs: Please visit www.KALIMUSE.com for complete personnel, song titles, cover art & distribution. Purchase these CDs directly from www.CDBaby.com.
PEOPLE of the NINTH: New Orleans & the Hurricane 2005 (FNCD 9011) 2006.
MAKING WAVES (FNCD 9010) 2005.
ONENESS (FNCD 9009) 2003.
VIVID (FNCD 9007) 2001.
MEMOIRS of a DREAM (FN2CD 9008) Double CD with Donald Rafael Garrett (2000).
COMRADERIE (FNCD 9006) 1998.
SENSUAL HEARING (FNCD 9005) 1997.
PROPHECY (FNCD 9003) 1993.
WORLDS BEYOND WORDS (FNCD 9001) 1989.
"Music lives in a multi-dimensional sphere encompassing all possible sounds...high and low, soft and loud, slow and fast, smooth and rough, legato and staccato. The essence of creating music is combining these yin and yang parameters of sound so as to enhance their distinctive qualities moving through time. This joining of opposites expresses the joyful unity of life." Kali. Z. Fasteau.
Kali, nice to hear from you -- hope you're doing well. I've been working on solo piano recordings; one released this year, another pending. Happy Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, from all of us. James & Family
thanks for the ad , i got the cd oneness this morning and this is really very impressive ! i could describe ! but i can feel it , something of a great nature in that , at least i felt it ; thanks again ! i m sure this will inspire me !
Hey Kali - I hope all's well with you and yours. It's been quite a while. I'm just giving you a shout to let you know I posted a couple more jams ("When It's Over" & "Free To Love") on my music page (Biambu Darius Garrett). I wrote and recorded them this week and played all the instruments live throughout..NO LOOPS!!!
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