| | Bill Laswell Asana Ohm Shanti CD Bill Laswell Discography of CDs
 |
|
Our Price: $12.89 CDFor Sale Usually ships in 1-2 days
|  |
Bassist and producer Bill Laswell's 30-year musical journey has taken him through the wilds of rock, hip-hop, funk, electronica, ethnic fusion, and hellacious noise, but in recent years it seems like he keeps gravitating back to the ethno realm. There's always been a thick vein of dark mysticism winding like a black rope through his various musical projects. The degree to which he buys into the reality of any of the transcendence he peddles is an open question, but one thing is certain: no one writes a prettier bassline, or delivers it with more elephantine authority, or brings together more beautifully matched singers and players. His latest under the group moniker Asana (the core of which is a duo consisting of Laswell and percussionist Karsh Kale, joined by a variety of South Asian collaborators) finds him exploring Indian classical and devotional themes as expressed by singers Kiran Ahluwalia, Ustad Sultan Khan, Asha Puthli, and others. The pattern is set early on: Kale builds a tasteful but generally restrained rhythmic bed on which Laswell lays down a bassline of dark, rich suppleness, and then someone starts singing. When that someone is Ahluwalia, the resulting sound is joyful and soaring; when it's Khan, the sound is grittier and more earthbound. And when it's Vidya Shah, it's a sharp, keening wail offset brilliantly by Laswell's meaty bass and a juddering jungle breakbeat. Every track is brilliant, each one in a different way. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson
The ancient science of yoga meets modern music technology on this compilation of electronic dance grooves, chants and meditative soundscapes. Music visionary Bill Laswell produced, arranged or performed on all of the eight tracks. Laswell is accompanied
Personnel: Falguni Shah, Ustad Sultan Kahn, Vidya Shah (vocals); Robert Musso (guitar, keyboards); Bill Laswell (keyboards, drums, percussion); Salim Merchant (keyboards); Sultan Khan, Asha Puthli, Kiran Ahluwalia (vocals); Karsh Kale (drums, tabla, percussion, programming); Falguni Shah.
Arranger: Karsh Kale.
Asana Ohm Shanti Music | List Price | $15.97 (You save $3.08) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, International CDs, Jazz Instrument, Dance, Electronica, Gospel, Classics (Silents / Avant Garde), Ambient, World | | Label | Metamatic Uk | | Orig Year | 2006 | | All Time Sales Rank | 48053  | | CD Universe Part number | 7013570 | | Catalog number | 20 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 21, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Bill Laswell | | Engineer | Robert Musso | | Personnel | Bill Laswell - keyboards, drums, percussion Karsh Kale - drums, tabla, percussion, programming Robert Musso - guitar, keyboards Kiran Ahluwalia - vocals Asha Puthli Salim Merchant - keyboards Sultan Khan Falguni Shah Ustad Sultan Kahn Vidya Shah - vocals
|
Bill Laswell Asana Ohm Shanti Songs | 1. | Morning Breeze |
| 2. | Kala Infinite |
| 3. | Shiva Stone |
| 4. | Mukti |
| 5. | Shriva Manas Puji |
| 6. | Ohm Shanti |
| 7. | Balama |
| 8. | Pattern Release |
| 9. | Here Comes the Sun |
| Asana Ohm Shanti Review
GuidelinesRemember to focus your comments on Bill Laswell Asana Ohm Shanti CD. Check our review guidelines for specific details regarding customer review policy. To submit your review, please fill out the above form and click "Submit Review." A staff member will then verify your review meets our guidelines. Upon approval, your review will be published within a few days. Please do not use this form to comment on web site errors or for order related questions. If you have concerns of this nature, please contact customer service by filling out this form.
Purchase Asana Ohm Shanti CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tabla Beat Science Live In San Francisco At Stern Grove CDs (2002)
Asana Ohm Shanti album
$14.35 Recorded live at the Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco, California on August 12, 2001.
Imagine you were having a dinner party and invited six or seven of your closest friends, each of whom is considered a master in their respective field. Let's say that throughout the night you introduced topics of conversation you knew would be of mutual interest to everyone, and you recorded the interchanges between these great minds for posterity's sake. No offense, but the results couldn't possibly be any more intriguing than this two-CD set, which is essentially the result of just such an experiment. Only in this case, the host is legendary bassist/mega-producer Bill Laswell, his friends rank among the world's greatest musicians, and the dialogue comes in the form of largely improvised cross-cultural collaborations between them. Don't let "Taaruf," ...
| | Bill Laswell Book Of Exit: Dub Chamber 4 CD (2002)
Asana Ohm Shanti CD music
$11.49 One of the most prolific men in music, Bill Laswell doesn't release albums under his own name as often as he once did, which makes Book of Exit, the fourth in his "Dub Chamber" series, especially worthy of attention. While the previous "Dub Chamber" releases leaned more toward hard Jamaican-style dub music, with instruments dropping in and out and plenty of reverb and delay, this is altogether a different beat, in large part due to the vocals of Ethiopian ...
| | Bill Laswell Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission Vinyl LP (2004)
Asana Ohm Shanti music CDs
$6.75
| | David Byrne My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts CD (1981) Remastered; Enhanced CD
Asana Ohm Shanti songs
$15.65
| | Gigi Gold & Wax CD (2006) Digipak
Asana Ohm Shanti album
$10.89
| | Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell CD (2006)
Asana Ohm Shanti CD music
$11.39 Few developments in the pop music world came as quite as big a surprise as the orthodox Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu's chart hit "King Without a Crown" in early 2006. The unlikely sight of a fully bearded, overcoated, and behatted Hasid beatboxing and toasting on-stage with an electric reggae band was visually startling, but it wasn't strange enough to complete distract from the man's heartfelt lyrics of spiritual yearning and finger-wagging declamation, or from his band's powerful, sinuous grooves. That band is called Roots Tonic (there's an in-joke for music theory geeks in there), and Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell is the trio's chance ...
| | Creedence Clearwater Revival Rollin' On The River CD (1988)
Asana Ohm Shanti music CDs
$7.69
| | Mystre Mystified CD (2003)
Asana Ohm Shanti songs
$14.29
| | Heintje Weihnachten Mit Heintj CD (2009) (Import) Import
Asana Ohm Shanti album
$13.15
| | Ibiza Lounge CDs (2002) (Import) Netherlands
Asana Ohm Shanti CD music
$15.25
| | James Duncan Future Past CD (2006) (Import) United Kingdom
Asana Ohm Shanti music CDs
$23.65
| | Golden Gate Quartet CD (2007) (Import)
Asana Ohm Shanti songs
$10.49
|
|
|