Kinsmen, by Rudresh Mahanthappa ft. Kadri Gopalnath & The Dakshina Ensemble

Kinsmen

by Rudresh Mahanthappa ft. Kadri Gopalnath & The Dakshina Ensemble

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ben1769 Thankyou. I love this. I searched Kadri Gopalnath and came across this. I'm not a musician, my Dad was trad jazz trumpeter. He taught me to appreciate good musicianship. I love Carnatic music, it does more to me than other music. Pranams Maharaj ❤️

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1.	Introspection 02:15	buy track
2.	Ganesha 10:50	buy track
3.	Rez-Alap 01:41	buy track
4.	Longing 11:21	buy track
5.	Snake! 06:22	buy track
6.	Carlo-Alap 01:43	buy track
7.	Kalyani 12:50	buy track
8.	Kadri-Alap 04:08	buy track
9.	Kanya-Alap 02:36	buy track
10.	Convergence (Kinsmen) 15:27	buy track

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Village Voice Jazz Critics’ Poll Best Records of 2008 - #2

Jazz Times Critics’ Poll Best Records of 2008 - #15

Number 4 on Ben Ratliff’s Top 2008 Recordings List, New York Times, Number 2 on Slate’s Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2008 and Number 2 on NPR’s Take Five Top 5 Jazz CDs of 2008

“Make no mistake, Kinsmen is a stylish and evocative blend of indigenous art forms, an extraordinarily successful East-meets-West experiment, and the most stimulating world/jazz soundclash since Ornette Coleman jammed in Jajouka.”
— Mitch Myers, Jazz Times

“Jazz musicians have been experimenting with more ancient musical languages since the late 1950s…”Kinsmen” is special, though…There’s a rough spark of intuition lighting up this album.”
— Ben Ratliff, New York Times

“A sense of integrated cultures pervades the altoist’s approach to jazz. Where many such experiments merely graft traditional jazz over top of Indian rhythms, Mahanthappa employs Indian musical concepts organically. The result is a fresh direction for jazz…”
— Shaun Brady, Philadelphia City Paper

“Mahanthappa and Gopalnath set out to create a music that “ventures well beyond the label of ‘Indo-Jazz fusion’” while being “an opening of a new door for Indo-Jazz collaboration,” and they have succeeded magnificently.”
— Bud Kopman, All About Jazz

credits

released September 1, 2008

Rudresh Mahanthappa - alto saxophone
Kadri Gopalnath - alto saxophone
A. Kanyakumari - violin
Rez Abassi - guitar
Poovalur Sriji - mridangam
Carlo de Rosa - bass
royal hartigan - drums

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Rudresh Mahanthappa New York, New York

Praised by critics as one of the most original composers in contemporary jazz, altoist Mahanthappa’s rare ability to synthesize South Indian music concepts with a range of unexpected influences characterizes him as one of the most important artists in the music today — as Jazz Journalists Association recently echoed by naming him Alto Saxophonist of the Year from 2009-2011. ... more

discography

Apex

Sep 2010
Kinsmen

Sep 2008
Codebook

Sep 2006
Mother Tongue

Oct 2004

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