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Snakes & Ladders
Australian Bebop Ragas
Produced by Simon Tassano, Co-produced by Stephen Kent
Published by Trance Mission Music / Tenth Bird Music.
Recorded at The Weaving Room, Oakland CA
Engineer - Lou Judson
Mixed at Rumiville, Austin TX
Mixing Engineer - Simon Tassano
Graphics - Seth Augustus
Teed Rockwell - Touchstyle Fretboard aka Warr Guitar
Sameer Gupta - Drums, Tabla
Stephen Kent - Didjeridu, Percussion, Cello Sintir, Animal Horns
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Review - Behzad Mohit, Poet/Impressario
"True fusion is where borders are melted and individual egos are dissolved in the harmony and rhythm of the spirit of love. Australian Bebop Ragas succeeded in both accounts; keeping individual virtuosity visible but to a minimum. The focus was music and sharing"
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Australian Beebop Ragas - the inside story
The seed for Australian Bebop Ragas, for me, was sown when Teed Rockwell brought his customized Warr Guitar [AKA Chapman Stick/Touchstyle Fretboard] onto my KPFA show a couple of years ago and, in the course of the program, we had a little impromptu jam together. The phone's went crazy & my email box was jammed with listeners who loved the combo. I was happy with that, but going further with it didn't occupy much of my head space for a while. In December 2006 I appeared at a Winter Solstice event at Oakland's Chapel of the Chimes [where I had previously recorded Living Labyrinths on the Summer Solstice] and performed immediately before a solo set by Sameer Gupta on Tabla. I was very impressed by his playing and watching him perform in candlelight, looming over the tabla like a giant bear in the gloom, was a sight I won't forget in a hurry.
So it was that when Teed called me a week or two later and asked me if I'd like to join he and Sameer in an evening jam session at the recently opened Cafe Trieste in Berkeley I gladly accepted the invitation and, with an open mind, showed up with a quiver of Didjeridus and my little red percussion bag.
Click here for the rest of the story...
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