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Gem Tones: Saxophone Supreme - South Indian Style
Kadri Gopalnath
Gem Tones: Saxophone Supreme - South Indian Style
Genres: International Music, Pop
 
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All Artists: Kadri Gopalnath
Title: Gem Tones: Saxophone Supreme - South Indian Style
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Label: Globe Style
Original Release Date: 5/16/2000
Re-Release Date: 12/27/2004
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Pop
Styles: India & Pakistan, India
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 029667309721

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Sax Appeal From The Subcontinent
Meathook Williams | Warwick, Massachusetts | 08/09/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"In recent years, many Indian musicians have brought western instruments into play within the context of Indian classical music, with great success. Brij Bhushan Kabri, Debashis Bhattacharya, and V.M.Bhatt have popularised guitar ( Bhatt actually plays the mohan vina, a gutar with sympathetic extra strings added). The electric mandolin virtuoso,U.Srinivas has several fine recordings available as of this writing. So, I guess it was only a matter of time before the saxophone made the journey. And it could hardly have a better champion than Kadri Gopalnath. Gem Tones ( the honorary title "Kalaimamani" means "Big Gem of the Arts") consists of six ragas. These are not the northern type, with the long, unfolding and meditative alap at the beginning that we're more used to as played by Ravi Shankar et al. These are from the more active,southern variety Carnatic style. It sounds far less odd than it might seem, the sax, if anything, making it even more accessible to western tastes. Gopalnath is joined hereby two percussionists andVadya Lahari's primo violinist Ms. A. Kanyakumari, a perfect foil.Vadya Lahari is, perhaps, my favorite ensemble from India, though only one CD of theirs is available here. If you ever come across it, snatch it up, you won't be sorry. A lot of the music here is played "jugalbandi" style with the two primary instruments playing largely in unison, but departing from time to time in complimentary fashion ( think of the "twin guitars" of the Allman Bros., but don't think rock n' roll). The double-headed mridangam is lovingly played by M.R. Sainatha, and the morsing likewise by Bangalore Rajasekar. The program is made up of rather ancient classic ragas and placed in order as if the disc was a concert.Production chores are deftly handled by the redoubtable Ben Mandelson, who really ought to be knighted for the scads of fine ethnic recordings he's introduced over the years.A winner all around."
Virtuoso sax playing
Dr. Mark S. Cohen | Calabasas, CA United States | 07/26/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)

"NOt a fusion record, Gem Tomes displays the deep relationships betweemn Indian classical music and modern improvisational jazz. The players follow a style of playing the 'head' and imporvising about the theme that is common to both forms. Here, the saxophone of Kadri Gopalnath makes these affiinities even more clear; Indian melody, when played on the sax, sounds extraordinarily familiar to the Western ear, but when paralelled by Indian classical violin, it is obviously part of the indian tradition.Amazing and refreshing listening."