Mantra: Musical Conversations across the Indian Ocean | Keda Records KEDCD68

Mantra: Musical Conversations across the Indian Ocean

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Label: Keda Records

Cat No: KEDCD68

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 15th March 2010

Contents

Artists

Jonathan Mayer (sitar)
Shahid Khan (voice)
Kuljit Bhamra (tabla)
Orlando Consort

Artists

Jonathan Mayer (sitar)
Shahid Khan (voice)
Kuljit Bhamra (tabla)
Orlando Consort

About

After settling in Goa in 1510, Portuguese missionaries set out to win the hearts, minds and souls of the local population through the power of music. They established an education programme that featured tuition in plainsong, polyphony and a variety of western instruments. Yet the process was one of interaction, not subjection. Traditional Indian instruments were made welcome in church and local tunes were borrowed and re-set with Catholic texts. The pieces on this CD reflect this melting pot of interaction.

Although there are no precise documents of the music that was played and sung during this collaborative period, it has provided a wonderfully liberating excuse for the artists to fantasise and indulge their imaginations. It is also a chance to demonstrate the fact that links between cultures need not exist solely at specific moments in history, but that they can also reach out across the centuries. This ambitious project dispels the myth that fusion doesn't work!

The Mantra Project was premiered in 2009 at the Cheltenham Festival and at Lichfield, Salisbury and the Brighton Early Music Festival, with glowing reviews.

Track Listing:
1. Veni Bahara
2. Absolve
3. Tabla talum
4. Heritage
5. Salve raga
6. Encounter
7. Karam
8. Henna Night
9. Quae est ista
10. Pada
11. Bhangra Limo

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