Happy New Year! These past fall/winter months were filled with various performances, new album releases, recordings and projects. Here are a few of the highlights:
NYC's darling of Bangin' Banghra & Brass Funk, Red Baraat, made appearances in September at the Chicago World Music Festival, Madison World Music Festival and Milwaukee's Global Fest. For Feather (though now on hiatus) travelled to Cincinnati for the MidPoint Music Festival, I recorded two new scores for acclaimed theatre director/composer Liz Swados, and the CineSamples sample library release "Drums of War" (on which I played percussion) is featured prominently throughout James Horner's score to the movie Avatar.
Red Baraat continues to garner rave reviews as we get closer to the official release of our debut recording, Chaal Baby. It's been over a year in the making and we'll be celebrating on Saturday, January 30th at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. Mark your calendars, grab tickets in advance and spread the word! I hope you'll come out and support us and also hear some great music from opening acts hip-hop artist Gabriel Teodros and cumbia-rock band Pistolera.
Read the reviews:
Some notable and recent album releases include:
released November 30, 2009
released late summer 2009
