Karsh Kale - Realize
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Artist: Karsh KaleEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: Six Degrees
Soundtracks:
- Empty Hands
- Distance
- Tour Guide
- Anja
- Home
- Satellite
- One Step Beyond
- Saajana
- Conception
- Light Up The Love
- Deepest Blue
- Fabric
- Longing
Music reviews of Realize
Music Review: an important step
Rating: 4 Stars
some important things: Karsh Kale's realize crew have created an important recording in the world of asian music. This might be the first real melding of classical traditional hindustani music and DnB--so much so that the combination aspect of it disssappears. There is a new synthesis brewing here, and it's an updated form of classical music; while the forms of raga aren't entirely maintained, and the pieces are incredibly short when compared to classical indian pieces... they're in there. There are "quick" alaaps, rhythmic developments that mirror gats, and other classical forms as well. What I hear is nothing short of the seed of NEW CLASSICAL MUSIC.Now, with that said, it does have its drawbacks. parts of the recording don't transcend the recording process; they feel stitched together, and it takes a while for some peices to become the sum of their parts. And there are moments when it just seems that a piece is meandering. However, this is basically a debut record, and we can't justly hold that against the musicians.
Another important thing: besides the bhajan done by. Ud. Sultan Khan, there isn't a trace of Indian folk music--especially Bhangra--on this record. No Dhol, no jump up beats. Nor is it the rhythmic marathon of tala matrix.
There's something new being born on this record; it's gonna take a while for this 'modernization' of indian classical tradition to develop, but there's a hell of a lot of promise. keep even more of an eye out for this guy.
Description of Realize
Karsh Kale (pronounced: Kursh Kah-lay), the leading U.S. figure in the Asian Massive movement infuses the traditional sounds of ancient India with post- millennial electronic dance styles such as trance and drum'n'bass. Blending sarangi, flutes and vocals with hypnotic electronica on Realize, his Six Degrees debut, Kale carves his own unique niche in pan-global music. Karsh Kale has previously collaborated with artists such as DJ Spooky, Herbie Hancock and acclaimed producer Bill Laswell, whose revolutionary Tabla Beat Science project featured Kale alongside tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain.Karsh Kale's debut, Realize, ups the ante and spins his scene--the Asian Massive movement--into gold with a stunning coming together of electronic dance music, Indian folk and raga, and classical. Both songwriter and percussionist, Kale has long been a compatriot of Talvin Singh and has played with Bill Laswell's intriguing < a href="/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/210353/${0}">Tabla Beat Science project. Realize is grounded in layers of percussive wonder, swaddled in guitars, cello, flutes, and supreme vocals, then flipped upside down and alchemically reimagined inside out and sideways. A bhajan becomes a drum-and-bass song, as well as the other way around. The beautiful and rhythmically complex "Saajana," written in the Indian folk bhajan tradition, is exemplary of just this. The sound of infinite bird wings beating upward to the heavens, Realize is a sonic circus of right on. --Paige La Grone
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