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- Jan 25, 2013 4:32 PM SamaDuo expands to trio, is now Pray For Brain
- Sep 10, 2009 8:01 AM two solo oud videos!
- Aug 25, 2009 7:37 AM resurfacing some earlier posts
- Aug 11, 2009 4:41 AM Why Indian Music?
- Dec 1, 2008 3:49 AM For Tagore (NYC Version)
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SAMA DUO is now PRAY FOR BRAIN:
Arabilly. Countryeastern. Indofunk. Sufisurf. Jazz. World. Jam. Music to help you Pray For Brain.
Pray for Brain is not your auntie's world music band, nor your uncle's country twang, nor your grandad's jazz vinyl: think 70s era Miles Davis, Chet Atkins and late Coltrane playing with the White Stripes and Isaac Hayes on a Calcutta rooftop with a bird's eye view to Morocco. Johnny Cash and Bengali icon Rabrindranath Tagore may sit in, too.
Pray For Brain is an evolution of Sama Duo, where Mustafa Stefan Dill (guitars, oud) and Jefferson Voorhees (drums) brought a telepathic level of interplay to their groove-oriented energetic improvisations, delivered with a gutsy south Asian and Middle Eastern twist.
One fan wrote, "I love Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Indian classical music and Zeppelin and improv jazz, and your music was hitting all of those buttons in my brain at once."
Albuquerque's Weekly Alibi called them "catchy, challenging, spacey and spiritual all at the same time."
With the addition of upright bassist Christine Nelson and retooled as Pray For Brain, the new trio expands the range of groove, nuance and improvising conversations. The music is simultaneously lighter but deeper, easier to hear and harder to shake off.
Pray For Brain binds their diverse musical influences into a unified, coherent soundscape: skillful writing frames artful, telepathic dialogues that draw on a deep core of both cutting-edge and ancient improvising methods from India, Africa and the Middle East. The trio offers their voice with an energetic finesse wrapped in a rhythmically-driven, wide-ranging rock/funk/country/jazz ethos.
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"...gloriously conglomerated of disparate elements..."- Mel Minter, Albuquerque The Magazine (Jun 01, 2012)
"...Catchy, challenging, spacey and spiritual all at the same time." Weekly Alibi, 9/2010
Loud, burning, skronky stuff (although, they do calm down at times and indulge in some more restrained, quiet passages). It's all very beautiful if you're into this sort of thing, definitely for fans of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and Nels Cline!! Cool. (for Stefan Dill Trio, 2002) -Aquarius Records, March 2002
"...packed with Hendrix inspired blues licks and string bends, coupled with John McLaughlin out there raw energy bursting into beautifully sustained feedback parries with bass and drums... To coin a well known phrase, 'it's music, but not as we know it Jim.'" (for Stefan Dill Trio, 2002) (JM Web) - Julian Derry, JMWeb
"Dill's playing is very quick, fluent, and highly accomplished, at times generating some beautifully rich and powerful textures inspired by the high drama of flamenco...stimulating". Geoff Cox, Classical Guitar (England), June 1998
"Very much in the flamenco vein ...while displaying a sometimes delicate and sometimes turbulent style. Yet his emotional playing has all the elements of what creative improvised music is all about...unquestionably an exceptional performance." Cadence, April 1998 (Vol 24 No. 4)
"... Dill's evocative solo nylon stringpieces are an ear-stretching hybrid of Bailey's stark pointillism and traditional flamenco gestures....full of delicate dynamic shading and poignant silences. Soulful and innovative." Joe Gore, Guitar Player, May 1998
" The work of guitarist Stefan Dill is as daring as it is ambitious and satisfying. ...These are tensions which propel the music - beyond hearing , which is what it ultimately aspires to- is all to do with the delivering of not just sound, but of a pure experience." Loretta Summers, World Beat (England), no 6 (April/May 1998)
"Eine mitreißende Tour durch eine andere Welt von Klängen und Inspirationen. Flamenco? Ja - aber einmal ganz anders!" Peter Maier, Gitarre Aktuell, I/98 (No. 60)
" Solo guitar music that lies somewhere in the triangle between flamenco, ECM style improvisatory jazz, and aleatory/12 tone composition....very original, and totally unique". Guillermo Juan Christie, Flamenco Connection
" ...haunting music in a language that floats on the threshold of the unconscious, congratulations!" Roberto Limon, Director, Centro hispanoamericano de Guitarra, August 1996
"The completeness and extreme originality of guitarist Stefan Dill's art is more than impressive....He has drawn from all manner of sources: the percussive power of flamenco has a role to play, balancing the expressivity of free jazz and the structural concerns of post - Schoenberg straight music....Crucially, his music is no potpourri: his tastes may be eclectic but he has his own, very distinctive, voice. " Steve Lake, FMP Total Music Meeting 1994 programme notes
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Hi Samaduo, thanx for the add. Nice to meet you. Greetings from Barcelona.
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The bosses of InterTech Records had prepared for the second release of the label a huge EP with epic original tracks and monstrous remixes!
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Hello samaduo!,
LAMAT new album "NEW HORIZONS" coming soon!!!!
Track list
1.- Lamat - The Power of Music
2.- Lamat - Mass control
3.- Lamat - New Horizons
4.- Lamat - Progressive Science
5.- Lamat - Hidden City
6.- Lamat - C.P.C (Creative Psychoactive compound)
7.- Ephedrix - Mexican Wave (Lamat rmx)
8.- SynSun vs Kamasutrance - The Key (Lamat rmx)
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You can now download our new single "We're Free" on Itunes, guaranteed to get you in a summery dancy mood!
Have a great day!
Peace
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Do check out this K-Jell live video clip from Beijing/China on Sunday the 2 of May 2010. The band is doing a brilliant cover version of RAMONES “the KKK took my baby away”
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