Like an extended jam session post-
Coltrane, this album fuses Indian sounds primarily with a saxophone in a relatively free manner.
Baluji Shrivastav has been around the
fusion scenes of London for some time, and with
Re-Orient, aka
Jazz Orient, he's been one of the go-to performers for
ARC Records when some contemporary Indian is called for. Here, they fuse
jazz and Indian music, along with elements from Middle Eastern music (
Hossam Ramzy provides some Egyptian percussion throughout that often mirrors the Indian percussion).
Guy Barker and
Andy Shappard provide the brass for the fusion, always capably adding in the accentuation needed for the piece at hand. With the palette of sound roving from genre to genre rather often throughout the album, the overall effect is a piece of nice
ambient music. It never gets too terribly daring, but it never quite falls flat either (even the elevator music of
"The Seven Wonders" comes off as nostalgic
exotica more than kitsch). Worth a listen for fans of
jazz fusion in a less serious tone than the old
John McLaughlin recordings. ~ Adam Greenberg
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