Over the last 60 years, East Meets West recordings have become somewhat commonplace in creative music. While John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, and Ahmed Abdul-Malik all experimented with Eastern sounds in the creation of jazz during the 1950s, the Joe Harriott/John Mayer Indo-Jazz Suite in 1966 and Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar’s first effort at melding formal classical tradition and improvisation in 1967 became landmarks. With Invisible Strings, guitarists Eraldo Bernocchi and Prakash Sontakke add a remarkable entry to a long list. Bernocchi is virtually unclassifiable as a musician, composer, and producer. Some of his working partnerships include exercises with Mick Harris, Bill Laswell, Harold Budd, Toshinori Kondo, Manabu Hiramoto, Balazs Pandi, Jamie Saft, and Obake.
Sontakke has appeared on albums by Narada Michael Walden, Food (Iain Ballamy and Thomas Stronen) and Raghu Dixit.
Bernocchi’s lap steel guitar playing is the prime melodic force on these nine pieces and reflects the influences of Carnatic music, Bollywood, spaghetti western soundtracks, and the melodic improvisation tradition. Bernocchi plays baritone and electric guitars and electronics. He places his abundant abilities in service to Sontakke’s labyrinthine harmonic creations. Ambient music informs each of these tracks, but the emphasis of percussion and haunted lyricism adds quiet drama that creates depth and heft, not merely ethereality. Pronounced plodding beats, strummed chords, and interplay between baritone and steel guitars are hallmarks in the foreboding “The Last Emperor Walked Alone.” “From Star to Star,” with its wordless choral vocal samples in the intro and syncopated layers of dubby rhythmic pulses, frames an active conversation between the guitarists in subtle, sweet yet poignant melodies that possess a song-like architecture. “Bangalor Electric” offers pronounced electronic snare beats and breaks atop hypnotic electric fingerpicked guitar vamps as Sontakke punctuates and paints them. The use of digital delay, drum and bass beats, and baritone guitar basslines on “Purple Yello” offers an elegant freneticism for the lap steel; Sontakke decorates sparsely but effectively. Taken as a whole, it offers the sound of motion looking past itself. Its sonic landscape circles wider with each pass until it swallows everything in its path to become a solitary, nearly exultant voice. The imagination at work on Invisible Strings is revelatory. These two men use only what its necessary to communicate and create musical “stories” that resonate far beyond each track’s prescribed length. Each selection maintains a distinct identity that contributes to the seamless flow of the whole. The music balances cinematic qualities while remaining subjectively intimate. This 21st century addition in the East Meets West canon acts not only as a shining example of what is possible when two open-minded talents from different cultures enter into creative dialogue, but as a complete realization of said encounter’s potential.
320 kbps | 103 MB | UL | OB | KF | TB | RG
Matt Holubowski’s first album ‘Ogen, Old Man’ was written and recorded in the spirit of simplicity, embracing of imperfection, and the search for truth and meaning. The raw, lo-fi album meant to bring the focus back to story telling, as was originally the tradition of folk music.
Holubowski’s second opus is set to appear in the fall, with more arrangements and colours, but the same candour.
320 kbps | 529 MB | UL |
Tracklist:
1. Meet Me In The City 4:58
2. Prove It All Night 5:21
3. Roulette 4:05
4. The Ties That Bind 3:42
5. Sherry Darling 6:16
6. Spirit In The Night 9:55
7. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 8:18
8. Fire 3:41
9. Something In The Night 4:42
10. Hungry Heart 6:08
11. Out In The Street 6:35
12. Mary’s Place 9:00
13. Death To My Hometown 5:18
14. The River 7:52
15. Racing In The Street 9:28
16. Cadillac Ranch 5:59
17. The Promised Land 6:08
18. I’m A Rocker 4:07
19. Lonesome Day 4:15
20. Darlington County 7:15
21. The Price You Pay 6:28
22. Because The Night 6:15
23. Streets Of Fire 5:54
24. The Rising 5:10
25. Badlands 8:17
26. Backstreets 9:17
27. Born To Run 5:24
28. Seven Nights To Rock 4:21
29. Dancing In The Dark 8:52
30. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 5:57
31. Shout 10:44
32. Bobby Jean 6:50
33 . This Hard Land 5:42
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| Artist: | Antonny Drew |
| Title of Album: | Amour Amor |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Total Time: | 4 minutes and 11 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 9.69 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Amour Amor | Antonny Drew | 4:11 |
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| Artist: | Doks |
| Title of Album: | Girls |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 7 |
| Total Time: | 25 minutes and 6 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 58.32 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Ma cherie | Doks | 3:26 |
| 02 | Fais moi confiance | Doks | 3:32 |
| 03 | Kiss Kiss | Doks | 4:23 |
| 04 | Comme un arc en ciel | Doks | 3:11 |
| 05 | Femme d’Afrique | Doks | 3:11 |
| 06 | Comme un fou | Doks | 3:48 |
| 07 | Eliminer | Doks | 3:35 |
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| Artist: | Eleeza R |
| Title of Album: | Ma Moitie |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Total Time: | 4 minutes and 26 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 10.58 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Ma moitie | Eleeza R | 4:26 |
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| Artist: | Ashley |
| Title of Album: | Tot Ou Tard |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Total Time: | 4 minutes and 7 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 9.63 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tot Ou Tard | Ashley | 4:07 |
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| Artist: | Nickson feat. Laureen Rose |
| Title of Album: | Notre Avenir |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Total Time: | 4 minutes and 24 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 10.29 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Notre avenir | Nickson feat. Laureen Rose | 4:24 |
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| Artist: | Kantik Vauclin |
| Title of Album: | Kantik Vauclin, Vol. 3 |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2013 |
| Tracks: | 7 |
| Total Time: | 35 minutes and 58 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 83.84 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | L’heure de minuit | Kantik Vauclin | 5:20 |
| 02 | Chantons noel | Kantik Vauclin | 5:45 |
| 03 | Les curs angeliques | Kantik Vauclin | 5:32 |
| 04 | Il est ne | Kantik Vauclin | 5:11 |
| 05 | Les bergers | Kantik Vauclin | 3:53 |
| 06 | Minuit chretien | Kantik Vauclin | 5:44 |
| 07 | Noel noel a l’Emmanuel | Kantik Vauclin | 4:33 |
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| Artist: | Tienno |
| Title of Album: | Emotion |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 12 |
| Total Time: | 49 minutes and 27 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 114.3 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sans toi | Tienno | 3:50 |
| 02 | Laura | Tienno | 4:10 |
| 03 | Condamne a t’aimer | Tienno | 3:47 |
| 04 | Pa di mwen | Tienno | 4:51 |
| 05 | J’ai trouve l’amour | Tienno | 4:19 |
| 06 | En illimite | Tienno | 3:46 |
| 07 | Je te chuchote | Tienno | 3:44 |
| 08 | Pour une nuit avec toi | Tienno | 4:13 |
| 09 | Tout gache | Tienno | 3:54 |
| 10 | Je t’attends | Tienno | 4:11 |
| 11 | Reviens-moi | Tienno | 3:52 |
| 12 | Laisse-moi vivre | Tienno | 4:50 |
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| Artist: | Tareeq |
| Title of Album: | Chaque Nuit |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2016 |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Total Time: | 4 minutes and 4 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 9.49 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Chaque nuit | Tareeq | 4:04 |
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