Search - Samsara Sound System :: Ritual of Carousel

Dudworldelectrohop

yajdubuddah | cheboygan,michigan usa | 06/19/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"thats what the makers of samsara sound system concider their latest projekct. Featuring production from alan kushan, professor shehab,fumio toshiro. With three mixes from electronic magician eraldo bernocchi (simm-ashes-sigillum s-equations of eternity-veve,chargeddd ex.....tracks 1,3,11also featuring piki chappell on cello and scientific exploration tracks 1,2,3,5,7,19,11 saam schlaminger percussion 2,4 dub gabriel samples track4 mee violin track 12.

dont just pass this off as an electronic or techno album with a world feel, no theirs something different, every song has the lusciousness of a real band that actually listens and can flow all over and constantelly challenge new rythems not just in the album but to everysong piece by pierce. almost every song features Alan Kushan on the indian santuri box (like dulcimer), and fumio playing i thing all bass. Electric and acoustic guitar,tablas, vocals,flutes, and electronic beats fill the sound pool. Im framilliar with shehab and im sure he and eraldo bernocchi are responsible for some of the beats, some are straight electro some have a sampledtribal drum to make the actual kit, and some are electro samples. Maybe those other sounds are some of shehabs samples from his taptop. i hear faint acordian harmonium to complete the persian egyptian feel. But to sum up this record when they say world music they mean it, features every style of music around, all over the world, styles mixed sometimes up beat and down beat dub style, hypnotic with lots of persian egyptian, african, eastern feel. Features beated songs and instrumental with ambient songes. kinda sounds like tabla beat science but more like santuri beat science. a quote from the album linner notes

"ancient persian melodies fuse with pulsing rhythms of brooklyn and japan.Musical maps emerge from the great void.Vedic chants guide us to the shore.Tears are shed and laughter fills the air. a new beginning is apon us-rejoice!

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