(World Fusion, Neo Indian Classical, Electronica) [CD] Suphala (ft Norah Jones, Martin Sewell, Vernon Reid, Neel Murgai, Niladri Kumar, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith) - The Now - 2005, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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REM GENRE "New Age"
REM DATE 2005
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Suphala is one of the most versatile young tabla artists making music today. Raised in the U.S. by Indian parents, Suphala began learning western classical music on the piano at age four, performing at age five, and as a teenager transferred her passion to one of the world’s most complex percussion instruments: the tabla. She combines an unparalleled technical command of her instrument with a playful sense of experimentation as she switches effortlessly between composing, producing and performing.
Suphala is a protégé of the great tabla masters Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain, whose constant inspiration compels her not only to dedicate herself to the study of Indian classical music but also to extend the reach of the tabla into an ever-growing variety of musical genres and cultural contexts. Her fluency in a diversity of musical traditions informs her unique compositions and her highly improvisational performances. The three albums she has released to date – Instru Mental (2000), The Now (2005) and Blueprint (2007) – go beyond the limits of genre and style while referencing such diverse influences as Western classical, Indian classical, jazz, folk and soul. But it’s not just her original music that is groundbreaking, her concerts provide an inspiring case-study in cultural diplomacy: she made history in early 2005 when she traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan as the first musician to play in public since the fall of the Taliban. According to the New York Times, "Kabul's badly depleted music scene received a welcome injection of excitement last week. [Her] arrival… caused a sensation in the war-torn country. ‘I have not played with a woman before,’ one Afghan tabla master said. ‘Our grandfathers do not even know of it.’”
Collaboration is one of the touchstones of her prodigious musical output: the musicians she has recorded or performed with include Norah Jones, Perry Farrell, Edie Brickell, Vernon Reid, Timbaland, Sean Lennon, 4Hero, Harper Simon, Yoko Ono, Vijay Iyer, Joan Osbourne, and Michael Bland among others. These artists have variously sought Suphala out to lend her talents to tours, her songwriting skills to specific tracks or her producing prowess to recordings. The artistic alliances Suphala forms -- including ensembles with vocals, strings, woodwinds, reeds and percussion -- are an integral part of her innovative approach to making music.
With her unique rhythmic and melodic vocabulary and production chops that are both rigorous and inventive, the next phase of Suphala’s evolving musical expression is bound to continue a trajectory rooted in a deep understanding of the proud legacy of the tabla and a passionate commitment to expand the scope of its expression and to communicate it to the wider world.
http://suphala.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suphala

"Music is the answer to the mistery of life. The most profound of all the arts, it expresses the deepest thoughts of life".
Arthur Schopenhauer
Suphala go beyond the limits of genre and style while referencing such diverse influences as Western classical, Indian classical, jazz, folk and soul.
THE NOW CONCEPT
To say one's music is futuristic is ignorance, as the great masters have done it all before. Not only they, but the wind, the ocean, the silence, the universe is playing... Creating... Music in every breath.
With technology a part of nature, we continue to create what is infinite : rhythm and melody - found only in the now - the only reality which truly exists.
"The Now", because it is this very moment. Timeless... A portal into a world you want to be in... The music, a vehicle to take you here.

Backing Vocals – Salim Merchant
Bass – Dana Leong, Hank Scroy
Bells – Suphala
Darbuka – Glen Fittin
Drum Programming – DJ Kiva, Suphala, Vernon Reid
Flute – Dana Leong
Guitar – Martin Sewell, Vernon Reid
Keyboards – Salim Merchant, Suphala
Percussion – Suphala
Producer – Suphala
Sitar – Neel Murgai, Niladri Kumar
Tabla – Suphala
Trombone – Dana Leong
Violin – Mazz Swift