Cheb i Sabbah has a new album that is just out that has some really good
stuff on it! The Six Degrees label has a couple of albums called Asian
Travels 1 & 2 that have some nice stuff on them and I would really very
highly recommend the work of Makyo who has a number of albums out with a
variety of percussive sounds on them, there are two comps called Sky
Dancing Nada Masala 1& 2 and Makyo's latest solo album called Yakshini,
these are fairly trippy and quite ambient albums but they do have some
great stuff on them, go to the Dakini recordswe b site to find out more
since most of this stuff is unavailable in your local Tower outlet! There
is a lovely album with Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek on
ECM called Making Music that I still play a lot and anything that Zakir
Hussain does is usually sterling work, I saw him at a festival in Monterey
and he had a group of tabla players actually swinging! I am not
knowledgeable enough about Gamelan to be able to recommend any of that to
you. There is quite a lot of stuff out there with Asian percussion though.
You might try Asiabeat also although it tends to the middling road and
some of it is drivel but they do have some good pieces that incoporate
gamelan and other Asian percussion as well. Happy hunting!
leslie/The Power of Sound/www.kazu.org
-- from Leslie Shillbeleza@speakeasy.net wrote: > I find myself particularly hungry for asian percussion. Maybe it's the weather? > Can anyone recommend a particularly good gamelon recording? Also, I stumbled > across this guy Cheb I Sabbah, dj from San Fran via NYC and Aleria, who has an > album and a remix album that completely slipped under my radar. I never heard > of him, maybe I should have, but the sound samples sound promising. Any
> opinions? Hey, while we're here, what has Mutamassik been up to? > > >
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