#Toronto Tabla Ensemble

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My WVUD playlist, 7/21/2022

(filling in on Java Time)

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita - Chaminuka Steve Tibbetts - Climbing Toronto Tabla Ensemble - Burning Sky The Hardy Tree - The New River Path, August Time Wharp - Mixo World tstewart - angels point Green-House - Morning Glory Waltz Jasmine Myra - Words Left Unspoken Vincent Ding - Pure Imagination Tami Neilson - Beyond the Stars (feat. Willie Nelson) Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine Orville Peck - C'mon Baby, Cry Shawn Lee - Airplanes Alan Parsons - Obstacles Allen Austin-Bishop - buffalo ghost Lucy Dacus - Believe Shearwater - Empty Orchestra Pale Blue Eyes - Globe Kario - Captive (Your Hooks) The Umoza Music Project - Home (feat. Paul McCartney) Fixi & Nicolas Giraud - Single Malt Lettuce - Get It Together Soil & "Pimp" Sessions - Funky Pongi Asha Puthli - The Devil Is Loose Makaya McCraven - Dream Another Thee Sacred Souls - Easier Said Than Done Acantha Lang - It's Gonna Be Alright Tedeschi Trucks Band - Playing With My Emotions Zola Jesus - The Fall Big Pig - Breakaway Ava Vox - Silent Tear Liquid Saloon - Shaiza

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Two singles from the Album #BHUMIKA

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Get To Know Toronto Tabla Ensemble And Their Release

Get To Know Toronto Tabla Ensemble And Their Release

Ritesh Das is the founder and artistic director of a unique band called Toronto Tabla Ensemble, an extreme drum-oriented group. They are a Toronto, Canadian based music group who have just released an original album titled “For the Love of Tabla”. We had a few questions and answers with them through Ritesh Das. Below are exclusive details on Toronto Tabla Ensemble and their new release. Continue…

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Jeff Martin (The Tea Party) & The Toronto Tabla Ensemble / Live at the E...

Jeff Martin & The Toronto Tabla Ensemble Live at the Enmore Theatre Sydney September 7th 2006 01. Silence 02. Psychopomp 03. Requiem 04. Daystar 05. Shadows on the Mountainside 06. The Badger 07. I Love You 08. The Messenger 09. Inanna 10. White Water Siren 11. Lament 12. Black Snake Blues 13. The Bazaar 14. Oceans 15. The Kingdom 16. Sister Awake 17. Winter Solstice 18. Save Me

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🇨🇦🎻🎼🏆 #CFMA2020 #PMFC2020 nominee spotlight is Toronto Tabla Ensemble for their TWO 2020 nominations --> Instrumental Group of the Year & World Group of the Year for/pour "Bhumika" ! Toronto Tabla Ensemble, founded by tabla master Ritesh Das mesmerizes audiences using the rhythms and grooves of North India. Their concerts bring audiences to the edge of their seats by showcasing the complexity of pure traditional tabla augmented by South Indian percussion, drum kit, Japanese taiko and kathak dance to create a high energy stage presence. The Ensemble's unique voice in World Music comes from their ability to translate these classic rhythms from the tabla to percussion, dance footwork, and melody creating an incomparable listening experience. 📸 Searn Howard https://ift.tt/2xJDHcp

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Currently listening to (defunct?) Canadian Indian-jazz/fusion music group TASA.  Lately I’m in love with their album Soma [album on Google Play].

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tasamusic/ 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YzVj8bAm4EqGVOCWlru00 

Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/preview/Aluwiz6azammcletj2ty2c357ju

Apparently defunct website: http://www.tasamusic.com/ 

From Facebook: 

Toronto’s Tasa is celebrating ten years as one of the country’s leading Indian world fusion ensembles by creating its most contemporary sounding fusion yet. On its brand new album, Alchemy, the group builds on its intricate Indo-jazz jam sound to create an even more sophisticated musical mélange that wouldn’t sound out of place in the Buddha Bar.

Alchemy features ethereal female vocals by new band member Samidha Joglekar (pr; sa-MEE-da JOGE-lay-ker), gorgeous violin solos by leading New York improviser Mark Feldman and occasional beats by DJ Olive, all of which gives the album a delightful world trance and chill-out feel. Co-producer (and Tasa bassist) Chris Gartner enhanced the effect by adding an assortment of electronic elements in post-production. Layered within is the band’s trademark mixture of intricate and evocative flute and sax melodies, groovy guitar and bass lines, lightening fast tabla and innovative global percussion.

Band leader Ravi Naimpally (pr. RUH-vee NY-im-pahl-lee) – once voted Toronto’s coolest musician by the readers of Eye – says the compositions were inspired in part by electric Miles and Indian melodies. He adds that the band has spent the three years since the release of its last album, Urban Turban, experimenting with new sounds to arrive at the current mix. DJ Olive was chosen as a collaborator for his rare ability to improvise alongside live musicians while following their lead. Feldman was approached to provide violin parts as a compliment to the Indian sarangi. Joglekar, though new to the core line-up of Tasa, was the guest vocalist on the band’s Urban Turban tour and has performed frequently with them ever since.

Naimpally formed Tasa in 1999 as a means to explore his dual identities as South Asian and Canadian. Born in Kanpur in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, he grew up in Thunder Bay, where his parents presented concerts by leading Indian musicians. Some of his first music lessons came from legends like Zakir Hussein and Anindo Chatterjee, who were staying at his home while performing. At sixteen, he began spending his summers in India, studying first with his uncle, Pandit Nikhil Ghosh, and later with Chatterjee. He went on to earn a Juno nomination as a member of the Thomas Handy Trio and to perform and record with Loreena McKennitt and Kiran Ahluwalia.

The other members of Tasa are equally accomplished - making the project a supergroup of sorts. Trumpet virtuoso Kevin Turcotte is a veteran of countless Toronto world and jazz groups and has shared the stage with international luminaries including Tito Puente, Dave Holland, Kenny Kirkwood, Pat LaBarbera, Bill Grove, and Kenny Wheeler. Global percussionist Alan Hetherington is the leader of Toronto’s Escola de Samba, which last year was a featured act at Sao Paolo Carnival. Guitarist and oud player John Gzowski has played with John Zorn, N.O.M.A., Maza Maze and Meryn Cadell to name a few. Bassist Chris Gartner is an alumnus of Look People, and has worked with Mary Magaret O'Hara, Garth Hudson, Martin Tielli, and Kevin Hearn & Thinbuckle.

Tasa released its debut CD, Bhakti, in 1999 and earned an Urban Music Award for Best World Album. They followed it up in 2001 with Soma and in 2006 with Urban Turban, which was met with considerable critical praise. The band toured Canadian jazz festivals in support of the release and was embraced by media across the country, appearing on CBC’s Sounds Like Canada and earning countless print features.

With Alchemy, Tasa once again pushes the musical envelope, creating a sound that will appeal to a wide range of music fans even beyond the traditional world and jazz audiences.

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JEFF MARTIN & THE TORONTO TABLA ENSEMBLE Sister Awake Live at The Enmo...

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USA: New CD by Saxophonist/Composer Dave Anderson & His World-Jazz Band Melting Pot Set for Sept. 14 Release

Saxophonist/Composer Dave Anderson

Provides Joyous Musical Response

To Current Immigration Climate With

New CD by His World-Jazz Band Melting Pot,

Set for Release on 9/14

Ensemble Formed in 2017

Celebrates Diversity of NYC's Creative Music Scene

  CD Release Show at Zinc Bar, NYC,

Thursday, September 6

       July 31, 2018

    Melting Pot, the new CD by saxophonist Dave Anderson's like-named world-jazz ensemble, provides a joyous musical antidote to the wave of xenophobia washing over the West today. Formed in 2017, the multicultural band reflects the vitality and diversity of New York City's international creative music community. Melting Pot will be released on September 14 by LABEL 1 Records.

  "American culture has started to resist something that's always been one of its strengths: bringing in people and their influences, seeing what they have to say, and blending these voices and ideas with our own," says Anderson, a veteran of Gary Morgan's PanAmericana big band and Memo Acevedo's Manhattan Bridges Orchestra. "I wanted to make a project reflecting people and music I've been exposed to."

  In addition to Anderson, who plays alto and soprano saxophones on the album, Melting Pot includes Colombian-American drummer Memo Acevedo; Venezuelan-American percussionist Roberto Quintero; tabla artist Ehren Hanson; sitarist and vocalist Neel Murgai; Austrian-American bassist Hans Glawischnig; Canadian pianist David Restivo; British trumpeter Bryan Davis; and Israeli flutist Itai Kriss. The unit revels in the creative opportunities to find common ground through musical expression made possible by bringing together musicians who would not ordinarily collaborate.

  Melting Pot at Systems Two Recording Studios, Brooklyn.

L. to r.: Ehren Hanson, Hans Glawischnig, Bryan Davis, Dave Anderson,

Neel Murgai, Dave Restivo, Roberto Quintero, Memo Acevedo.

Not pictured from album: Itai Kriss, Deep Singh. (Photo: Shea Glover) 

  "I wanted to celebrate specific musical styles brought from abroad to the U.S. by showcasing these styles in a new small jazz ensemble, while demonstrating jazz's unique ability to fuse musical influences into a new and vital whole," Anderson explains.

  The new CD's five originals, which intermix straight-ahead and Afro-Latin jazz with Indian ragas and traditional Jewish and Mongolian influences, demonstrate how musicians from different lands can weave disparate styles and experiences into a rich and seamless sonic tapestry.

  The centerpiece of Melting Pot, Anderson's fourth album as a leader, is the three-part "Immigrant Suite," with each section inspired by a real-life person embodying an aspect of the North American immigrant experience. It opens with "Juror Number 1," written for a Cuban immigrant Anderson met during that most multicultural of New York City experiences: jury duty. "Querida," with its samba rhythm first played on pandeiro, is Brazilian Portuguese for "Sweetheart." Its inspiration was a Brazilian immigrant Anderson knew who referred to her closest friends in America using this term.

  The suite's finale, "A Candle for Isaac," pays tribute to a man Anderson never met -- his girlfriend's father, who passed away in 2013. "He was an Indian Jew who came from Bombay and settled in Montreal," Anderson explains. "Talk about a melting pot!"

  Born (in 1966) and raised in Cloquet, Minnesota, Dave Anderson started playing saxophone in his school band at age 11 and eventually won awards as an outstanding high school soloist at area jazz festivals. While attending the University of Minnesota, where he earned a psychology degree, he spent much of his time in the music department and played in the university's jazz bands and symphonic wind ensemble. Anderson won a full scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival, performing in a student ensemble that also included Clarence Penn, Ryan Kisor, Scott Whitfield, and Laurence Hobgood.

  After a brief stay in Toronto, Anderson moved to New York, working as a jack-of-all-trades for Creed Taylor at CTI Records. In 2005, he relocated to Seattle and was active on the music scene there. He released his debut album, the quartet session Clarity, in 2010, and Trio Real in 2011. That same year he moved back to New York to reestablish himself and initiate new projects. His 2016 release Blue Innuendo, an organ-jazz session featuring Pat Bianchi, guitarist Tom Guarna, and drummer Matt Wilson earned a rare 4½-star review from Down Beat from Bill Milkowski, who praised its "great chemistry, great playing and good vibes."

  Anderson's work with Morgan and Acevedo has influenced his decision to explore world music more deeply, something reinforced by living in a true melting pot. "Here in New York I ride the subway every day; I see the Statue of Liberty from the Q train," Anderson says. "I think about my ancestors coming to this place from Finland and Scandinavia. I see the great mix of cultures. I wanted to celebrate these different styles, collaborate with these different people I met, and say 'Hey, let's take what we've all got, bring it together, and maybe we'll even create something new. But we know we'll create something musical and something we can share for people to enjoy.'"

  Dave Anderson & Melting Pot will perform a CD release show at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd Street, NYC, on Thursday, 9/6 at 7pm; $20 cover.

      Photo of Dave Anderson: Evan Shay  

      Dave Anderson Melting Pot

        Web Site: daveandersonjazz.com     

***Blog Post by Dave Anderson:

"My Ancestors and the Melting Pot"

Media Contact:

Terri Hinte 510-234-8781 hudba@sbcglobal.net terrihinte.com  

via Blogger https://ift.tt/2vBIbOx

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806. January 20-25 Events in Multicultural Toronto - 2018.

806. January 20-25 Events in Multicultural Toronto – 2018.

Tea and music in a yurt. A charming video starring the Toronto Tabla Youth Ensemble. Two Robbie Burns Day celebrations. Escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad. An insight into today’s headlines about Iran. Decolonizing our community. Cuban jazz. A showing of a 1963 Jean-Luc Godard film. An understanding of the mechanisms behind the Holocaust. These are among the many affordable events that…

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Faceoff gets three Laurels, from India. Well deserved. My brother would have been extremely proud of his Sister -in-law Melissa who added such strong visuals to this song from an album dedicated to him. Great work by my students Razak Pirani Shamir Panchal Nivethan for composing and strong support melodically by Raaginder Singh Momi and followed by yet another strong approach through Kathak dance by my brothers senior student Labonee Mohanta. Congratulation to the whole team and I am sure this is going to win more recognition and awards.

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PARAMPARA (from Sanskrit word meaning continuation succession, tradition)is a world premiere of new works of high energy, innovative rhythm and dance of India by a upcoming generations of Canadians and Americans maintaining the tradition and legacy of Late Acharya Chitresh Das, kathak dance icon and of living legend of tabla, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri.

Artistic director and producer for this event, Ritesh Das, has created a repertoire of sophisticated rhythmic style of North India and performed by Das’ Toronto Tabla Ensemble (TTE) in collaboration with the Chitresh Das Youth Company (CDYC), choreographed by CDC Artistic Director, Charlotte Moraga. This exciting collaboration will also feature virtuosic percussionist, Nilan Chaudhuri, son and disciple of Maestro Swapan Chaudhuri, who is adding a new dimension of East and West by playing tabla as well as translating tabla drum strokes onto Western kit drum.

The performance will feature *Sare Nau*, a composition in a 9 1/2 beat rhythmic cycle, *Bhumika *(meaning earth, birthplace or grounding) and other select pieces from Ritesh Das’ upcoming TTE CD, entitled *Bhumika*. TTE and Ritesh Das are also proud to present yet another generation of Canadian talent, the Toronto Tabla Youth Ensemble, who will perform Sailing, the piece featured in their upcoming music video, produced and directed by Melissa Das-Arp.

This performance highlights the legacy of great Indian classical artists who committed their life’s work to training the next generation. Those generations are now beginning to rise, grounded firmly in the profound traditions of Indian classical art.

Artistic Director Ritesh Das says about this collaboration “the essence of the evening are these young generations from both Canada and the U.S. maintaining the art form and the legacy of India at the highest standard. As artist who has given my life to teaching the next generations, I am excited to share with Toronto audiences in collaboration with TTE, the legacy of my illustrious, late elder brother, Chitresh Das and my Guru, Swapan Chaudhuri.”

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PARAMPARA (from Sanskrit word meaning continuation succession, tradition)is a world premiere of new works of high energy, innovative rhythm and dance of India by a upcoming generations of Canadians and Americans maintaining the tradition and legacy of Late Acharya Chitresh Das, kathak dance icon and of living legend of tabla, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri.

Artistic director and producer for this event, Ritesh Das, has created a repertoire of sophisticated rhythmic style of North India and performed by Das’ Toronto Tabla Ensemble (TTE) in collaboration with the Chitresh Das Youth Company (CDYC), choreographed by CDC Artistic Director, Charlotte Moraga. This exciting collaboration will also feature virtuosic percussionist, Nilan Chaudhuri, son and disciple of Maestro Swapan Chaudhuri, who is adding a new dimension of East and West by playing tabla as well as translating tabla drum strokes onto Western kit drum.

The performance will feature *Sare Nau*, a composition in a 9 1/2 beat rhythmic cycle, *Bhumika *(meaning earth, birthplace or grounding) and other select pieces from Ritesh Das’ upcoming TTE CD, entitled *Bhumika*. TTE and Ritesh Das are also proud to present yet another generation of Canadian talent, the Toronto Tabla Youth Ensemble, who will perform Sailing, the piece featured in their upcoming music video, produced and directed by Melissa Das-Arp.

This performance highlights the legacy of great Indian classical artists who committed their life’s work to training the next generation. Those generations are now beginning to rise, grounded firmly in the profound traditions of Indian classical art.

Artistic Director Ritesh Das says about this collaboration “the essence of the evening are these young generations from both Canada and the U.S. maintaining the art form and the legacy of India at the highest standard. As artist who has given my life to teaching the next generations, I am excited to share with Toronto audiences in collaboration with TTE, the legacy of my illustrious, late elder brother, Chitresh Das and my Guru, Swapan Chaudhuri.”

We all wish to see you at Harbourfront Centre on the 25th Nov 7 PM for this performance.

For more information contact: melissa(at)tablaensemble.com or call 1-888-958-2252

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Tabla Class

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(Toronto Tabla Ensemble)

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Media Release