Length 59:19 Artist Jonas Hellborg Label Bardo Records | Producer Jonas Hellborg Release date 25 January 2003 Genres Jazz fusion, World music | |
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Released 25 January 2003 (2003-01-25) Recorded Air Edel Studios in London, England; Bardo Studios in New York City; The Dungeon in Memphis, Tennessee Similar Jonas Hellborg albums, Jazz fusion albums | ||
Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering is an album by bassist Jonas Hellborg, released on 25 January 2003 through Bardo Records. The album merges contemporary jazz-fusion and traditional Indian improvised music and features guitarist Shawn Lane in his last officially released studio recording before his death in September of that year, as well as the sons of ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram: Selvaganesh (kanjeera), Umashankar (ghatam) and Umamamesh (vocals), who also perform passages of konnakol, the vocal "scatting" often used as a memory device by Indian percussionists. The album's name stands for a common cross-cultural ideal image, beyond vanity and self-identity, also present in this kind of musical communication.
Contents
Track listing
All tracks written by Jonas Hellborg and V. Selvaganesh.
Personnel
Songs
1AnchorShawn Lane - V Selvaganesh - V Umamahesh - 15:04
2MirrorShawn Lane - V Selvaganesh - V Umamahesh - 23:20
3VehicleShawn Lane - V Selvaganesh - V Umamahesh - 16:10