Orlando Consort & Kuljit Bhamra
Release Date: 15 March 2010
Label: Keda Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7984352868224
Genres: World Music
Description
The early music choir Orlando Consort collaborates with virtuosos Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Shahid Khan (voice) and Kuljit Bhamra (tabla) to create exciting new works and arrangements which fuse early music and Indian classical music.
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 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!
Tracklisting
Sangita Lakhanpal & Kuljit Bhamra
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Kuljit Bhamra
Winter Of Love / O.S.T.
Dubtician
Various Artists
Abdulkarim Raas & Kuljit Bhamra
Ram Meetook
Toumani Diabate
Guts
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Lolita
Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers
Lux Musicae London
Various Artists
Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt
