Other Minds Festivals ➔ Other Minds Festival: OM 1: Concert 4 (Nov. 7, 1993)

Digital Audio


Event Type
Music
Origin
Other Minds
Identifier
OMF.1993.11.07.B
Program Series
Other Minds Festival
Program Length
80 min
Dates
| broadcast
| 1993-11-07 | created
Description
This is the second half of the fourth and last concert of the inaugural Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 1), which was held on November 7, 1993 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jai Uttal with his Pagan Love Orchestra perform a set of Indian influenced world beat music. Fusing American jazz with Hindustani rhythms and lyrics, Uttal creates an sound equally at home in the dance hall or temple. A former student of Ali Akbar Khan, Uttal has also traveled extensively throughout India and Asia and spent many hours jamming with the Bauls, the wandering street musicians of Bengal, as well as learning the art of yoga chanting from his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. All these experience plus the masterful musicianship of his talented band of Bay Area jazz and world beat performers make for an evening ideal for the conclusion of the first ever Other Minds Festival.

Note: The first half of the concert, featuring two pieces by Robert Ashley, is unfortunately missing.
Genres
World music
Popular music
Musical Selections
Menoka (7:38) / Jai Uttal -- Hara Shiva Shankar (8:12) / Jai Uttal -- Gopala (8:22) / Jai Uttal -- Madzoub (18:10) / Jai Uttal -- Raghupati (16:08) / Jai Uttal -- Govinda (7:09) / Jai Uttal -- I Won’t Ask For More [faded out at end] (4:36) / Jai Uttal
Performers
Pagan Love Orchestra:
Jai Uttal, dotar, voice, etc
Jeff Cressman, trombone and trumpet
Will Bernard, electric guitar
Geoffrey Gordon, percussion
Peter Apfelbaum, drums and saxophone
Bruce Linde, bass
Rob Vlack, keyboards
Irene Sazer, violin
Dan Reiter, cello
Subjects
World music
World beat (Music)
Music -- India
Acknowledgment
Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.