Artist: Tirtha (Vijay Iyer, Prasanna and Nitin Mitta)
Title: Tirtha
Label: ACT Music + Vision
Cat.#: ACT 2011
Genre: Nu Indian Jazz (?)
Reviewed by Matthew Rentz
Tirtha is a Sanskrit word that represents a crossable shallow river or stream and a place of pilgrimage. That is exactly what the US based ensemble of the same name provides the listener on their self-titled debut album, a journey where the traveller emerges having experienced a spiritual transformation.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
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One of New York’s original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music. In the video below Hazmat Modine are performing live “The Tide” at the BBC.
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HAZMAT MODINE’S new CD CICADA is out (13 Tracks, 24 page booklet with special guests on the CD)
Two years in the making, this epic CD is the result of five years or worldwide touring and countless collaborations which makes Hazmat the most global of all American bands. With special guests The Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant and Benin’s extraordinary Gangbe Brass Band. Out May 17.
(About the video: a new video of FULA FLUTE featuring Bailo Bah and Sylvain Leroux. Performing the song “Ndougouse Baobara” in an environment of works by French sculptor Alain Kirili.)
Sylvain Leroux (alto sax & fula flute) was born in Montréal. He studied classical music at Vincent d’Indy School of Music and
