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Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra
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2003 Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album 

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Experience bliss !!! Jai Uttal's eclectic East-meets-West music embraces a rich variety of cultures and traditions. Intrigued by ancient music, Uttal learned his craft from India's National Living Treasure, Ali Akbar Khan. Embracing Kirtan and Hindu dance, reggae, and Beatles' rock, Uttal creates a sacred, visionary chant in a Western groove.

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MONDO RAMA confirms that Jai Uttal has evolved into one of the foremost artists communicating spiritual themes in truly original world music. The title conveys the presence of "an absolute all pervading Being in a big crazy world," he explains. "This album is both a progression and a departure. During the time of conceiving and producing this CD, I did a lot of traveling; Israel, Brazil, Fiji, and India, each time returning to my home in the Oakland-Berkeley area where boom boxes and car sub-woofers are the preferred way of hearing music." This multitude of experiences went into the making of MONDO RAMA. "The album seemed to grow and grow with a life and energy of its own. Sometimes it spoke to me, and sometimes I spoke to it. MONDO RAMA takes the seeks of what I've been doing with Indian and world music and spreads them in various directions: dance music, sampling, turntablism, Appalachian, Brazilian, blues, and Middle Eastern. While the rhythms and melodies are consistently organic, the textures are tripped out and electronic."

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1 Narayana
  2 Shri Krishna
3 Tomorrow Never Knows/Shivaya
  4 Exile
5 Shalom
6 Bom Bolenath
  7 Mood X
8 The Whisper Stream
9 Kali Mata
10 Hot Button
11 Mondo Rama
12 Valencia Gardens
Artists and Instrumentation
Jai Uttal - vocals, dotar, harmonium, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, gubgubbi, ektar, 
     kartals, sarod, banjo, gopichand, flute, harmonica

Ben Leinbach - keyboards, drum programming, acoustic guitar, conga, djembe, shakers,    
      tambourine, cymbals, dotar, berimbau, kalimba, backing vocals

Prem "Daddy" Vandan (Kit Walker) - Hammond B3 organ, Fender rhodes

Geoffrey Gordon - dholak, dumbek, djembe, frame drums, udu pots, kanjira, bendir, caxixi,
       bells, percussive colors

Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Turkish ney

and many others

 

 

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