David Boyce, aka Osiris Black Edgar Kenyatta, aka Oskar Phat, aka Dogon 318 is one of the founding members of Bay Area acid jazz legends, Broun Fellinis. With his amazing array of pedals, and electronics, which is aptly named Black Edgar's Musicbox, David is considered by many to be a true master of the saxophone, and impressively he is at more powerful behind his musicbox, redefining the komos of sound for each performance. http://www.blackedgar.com
Shingo Annen aka Shing02 is a very well-respected Japanese hip-hop producer/ MC. He brings to KR his own invention, The Vestax Faderboard, along with the ARP Odyssey. His work as a recording artist is popular worldwide, and his various collaborations and activism projects place him in a class of his own. http://www.e22.com
Sameer Gupta The sole member of KR without any digital efx or manipulation is the percussionist. Drumset and tabla player, Sameer works within this analog context with impressive grace and agility. Founder of San Francisco-based Jazz enemble The Supplicants, his other collaborations with well-respected artists around the world distinguished Sameer as a rare voice in today's music scene. http://www.sameergupta.com
Influences
Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Zakir Hussain, Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter
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The new music video for Turn is now on our MySpace video section, check it out! (It's free to download on karmacoda.com too).
And if you're one of our San Francisco friends: the CD release party is Saturday April 7th.
Hello David - it was wonderful to see you play this year including w/ Beatropolis at Elbo Room, w/ Sila and the Afro Funk Experience at SF Carnaval at Jupiter w/ your Black Edgar's Music Box and at The Independent w/ J. Boogie. Have a great new year and a fantastic 2007 and beyond!
Tom / Berkeley CA
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Man on a mission, transcending time, music is a language of the divine."
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Three people of course, are space type improvisational jazz unit and Kosmic Renaissance which center Shing02. Play was made to start simultaneously with appearance. The image which seems like the ancient picture, like letter left and right starts projecting to the screen symmetrically, with performance changing keeps. The latest performance, opening as for David Boyce the saxophone, as for Sameer Gupta the drum, announcing Shing02 the free jazz which used [hueidabodo]. Quite, it makes the play like and whether it aligned with the dance of the audience of, does to become drunk the [re] [ru]. As for David in Microkorg, as for Sameer the musical instrument is changed to the tabla respectively to the medium board, it is native and [supeishi] it changes to performance. When in the past seeing, as for live, the kind of impression where various tunes are mixed was received, but this time although it was, quite the whole like one music, you could think revolution pitch in the medium board. Without willy-nilly in the future expectation depends on Kosmic Renaissance which continues to evolve.
the automated internet translator does to words and meaning the same feeling as your music does to sounds and meaning..both left open to interpretation...peace
I found a review of the band's performance in Japan 2004, but it was in Japanese, so I translated it via the automated free internet translator babelfish, enjoy!
"After applying the tune which is thought that it is Shing02 lastly, Kosmic Renaissance appears in stage. Saxophone: David Boyce, tabla/drum: Sameer Gupta and fader - board/: Three human formation of Shing02. The web of YELLOW the free jazz it is the occasion where you looked at profile with something and with it is to be written and it does, but when really you try hearing, as for free the rhinoceros the it was of course and feeling had come out strongly. As for this day the table seat being set by the floor, it meaning that most people are sat down first just a little pulling, although the feeling did, just everyone upper body started shaking gradually on front and back, something the strange feeling (in the × floor table seat × performance the free jazz × customer the vertical paste, the being strange, did the ) was. Simply, as for performance being good enormously, the loop point to the same phrase, using the wheel in the rhinoceros, the kind of saxophone which keeps advancing in the rhinoceros the parenthesis was good, is."
