East meats West through the use of sitar or other Fusions with Indian music

Facing East Prod.

John Wubbenhorst & Facing East

(with Subash Chandran & Ganesh Kumar with Steve Zerlin & Jorge Zamorano) :

Facing Beloved (IND/US,2003)****

review moved to http://www.psychefolk.com/JohnWubbenhorst.html

Perm.M. WDR Big Band Köln, Charlie Mariano, Karnataka College of Percussion, Mike Herting :

Sketches of Bangalore (2001)***°

Acc.Music Rec. The Guitar Duo meets the Karnataka College of Percussion)

Manuel Delado, Ralf Siedhoff, T.A.S.Mani, R.A.Rajagopal : "Crossing Roots" (2002)***

Sonet Rec.Oriental Wind / The Karnataka College of Percussion : Sankirna (TÜ/IND,1985)****

these 3 reviews moved to http://www.psychefolk.com/KarnatakaCollegeOfPercussion.html

Simla House Inc. Ray Spiegel Ensemble : Sum and Kali (US,1997)***°

Simla House

Ray Spiegel Ensemble : Raga Jazz (US,2004)****'

reviews moved to http://www.psychefolk.com/RaySpiegelEnsemble.html

private

The Udhav Shinde Trio (IND/(US/UK)/B,2003)*°°

review moved to http://www.psychefolk.com/TheUdhavShindeTrio.html

Heaven On Earth Music Terracotta (UK,2003)*°°'

review moved to http://www.psychefolk.com/CraigPruessJohnAltman.html

Galloping Goat

Natraj : Deccan Dance (US,1998)**°

Dorian Disc.

Natraj : Meet me anywhere (US,1992)***°

reviews moved to http://www.psychefolk.com/Natraj.html

Ozella Music

The Taal Tantra Experience : Sixth Sense (D/IND,2010)****'

This super World Jazz Fusion group consists of 16 participating German and Indian musicians, including percussionist Tanmoy Bose (who shared stages with Ravi and also Anoushka Shankar) as a steady member, and Dabashish Bhattacharya on one track. The band is not only good with attractive jazzy melodies and rhythmic skills but also in well hanging together colourful arrangements making a fluent melodic groove and convincing mood with a high level in the arrangements. It is great that several sorts of vocal arrangements compromise jazz and skatting and filmic wordless singing with the Indian rhythmical singing, and we have a few electric texturing arrangements adapted into the mix too. The tracks surprise with a fresh swing the whole time. This is a matured renewed experience after the younger exploratory years of jazz fusion in the 70s. Here the result became neither jazz, fusion or world music or some kind of rock but a perfect united mix of possibilities with common roots in jazz, jazz-rock and Indian music.

Info & audio : http://www.myspace.com/taaltantra

Label info : http://www.ozellamusic.com/464.0.html

Percussionist Tanmoy Bose homepage : http://www.tanmoybose.com

Other reviews : http://www.tokafi.com/news/taal-tantra-experience-sixth-sense/#

& http://www.mpeters77.freeserve.co.uk/ozellamusic.html & http://www.folkworld.de/43/e/cds4.html#taal