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Elevation (Lawson Rollins album)

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Released
  
2011

Elevation (2011)
  
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Release date
  
2011

Genre
  
World music

Length
  
1:13:27

Artist
  
Lawson Rollins

Label
  
Infinita Records

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Producer
  
Dominic Camardella, Lawson Rollins, Shahin Shahida

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Elevation is the third solo album by guitarist and composer Lawson Rollins. Rollins co-produced the album with Persian-American musician and producer Shahin Shahida (of Shahin & Sepehr) and multi-platinum producer Dominic Camardella (Flora Purim, 3rd Force, Ottmar Liebert). The cast of 20 different musicians includes the Grammy winning violinist Charlie Bisharat, avante-garde electric guitarist Buckethead, Nepali sarangi player Kirin Nepali, Iranian vocalist Parsa Hassandokht, Nepali flute player Ruban Kumar Shrestha, Iranian santurist Pejman Eckhtiari, and Nepali tabla player Raju Maharjan. Associate producer William Aura of 3rd Force recorded the Nepali musicians in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Iranian musicians were recorded in Iran by co-producer Shahin Shahida.

Contents

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Composition

Rollins composed all of the music on the album; however, the song "Parisian Rhapsody" was inspired by "Gymnopedie No. 1" by Eric Satie. "Francisco's Dance" contains excerpts from "Capricho Arabe" by Francisco Tarrega.

Reception

Elevation received positive reviews from jazz, guitar, and world music critics.

The single from Elevation, "Daybreak", appeared on the Billboard top-30 Smooth Jazz Songs chart. The single peaked at #22.

Track listing

All tracks written by Lawson Rollins.

Songs

1Elevation5:22
2Voyager's Tale5:43
3Persian Night5:28

References

Elevation (Lawson Rollins album) Wikipedia