Deepak Ram – Flute For Thought
Label: M.E.L.T. 2000 – BW104
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: Future Jazz, Ambient
Tracklist
1 Space Time 5:45
Bass Guitar, Keyboards – Russell Herman
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards – Deepak Ram
Percussion [Special Effect], Congas, Timbales, Cowbell – Thomas Dyani
2 Kitu 6:45
Bass Guitar [Electric Fretless Bass] – Julian Crampton
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards – Deepak Ram
Congas, Bongos, Percussion [Special Effect] – Thomas Dyani
Kora, Cello – Tunde Jegede
Vocals – Mukesh Desai
3 Father Of Flute 2:21
Composed By, Flute – Deepak Ram
4 Glimpsed Middle Reality 1:10
Composed By, Kora – Tunde Jegede
5 Cabbage And Roti 4:48
Bass Guitar, Drum Programming – Russell Herman
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards – Deepak Ram
Congas, Bata, Djembe, Shaker, Cowbell, Percussion [Special Effect] – Thomas Dyani
Kora – Tunde Jegede
6 Upasana - Between Notes 2:29
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards – Deepak Ram
7 A Night In Lenasia 4:16
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards, Vocals – Deepak Ram
Electric Bass – Julian Crampton
Talking Drum, Shaker – Nana Tsiboe
Udu [Udo], Guiro – Ansuman Biswas
8 Vrindavan Lullaby 2:12
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards [Bells], Vocals – Deepak Ram
9 Prince Down Gerty Street 1:41
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards, Tabla – Deepak Ram
Percussion [Special Effect] – Thomas Dyani
10 Between Thoughts 10:09
Composed By, Flute, Keyboards – Deepak Ram
Percussion [Special Effect] – Thomas Dyani
Profile:
Deepak is an incredibly versatile artist who is well known for his evocative performances in traditional North Indian classical music, his collaborations with musicians of other genres, his innovative compositions and for his excellence as a teacher.He earned a Masters degree in Music (MMus) from Rhodes University, South Africa, in 1996 for his thesis, Exploring syncretism between Indian and western music through composition.Deepak has six solo albums to his credit and as a session musician (he playes flute, flauta and tabla amongs other instruments) can be heard on over twenty five albums. His bansuri can also be heard on movie soundtracks.In 2000, Deepak was awarded Best Instrumental Album at the South African Music Awards for his album Searching for Satyam. His previous album Flute for Thought also saw him being nominated for Best Male Artist and Best Instrumental Album in the 1999 South African Music Awards. Both these albums feature Deepak's compositions and arrangements based on elements of North Indian music.
Notes
In booklet:
Track 1: (1997).
Track 2: (For my Wife, 1993) published by Derry Music (BMI).
Track 3: (Dedicated to my teacher, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia).
Track 4: Triciom Publishing
Track 5: (For my Mother, 1987) - It was a cold and rainy day in 1967. We had to stay in class during the first lunch break at First Primary School in Lenasia. It was too cold to play outside. I opened my lunch box and found cabbage and roti, so lovingly prepared by my mother. Hungrily, I relished the cabbage and roti while watching the rain through the classroom window. I still remenber the taste. Thanks, Mom.
Track 6: Upasana, a discipline of observing silence in word and thought while trying to gaze within, where bliss awaits. Like the silence between musical notes, where music awaits.
Track 7: a movie at Apsara, a chip roll special, watching some 'bra' tilt the pinball machine...
Track 8: (1994)
Track 9: Trotting down the streets of Sophiatown, Prince was a horse that pulled a cart, from where vegetables were sold. This was one of the many tasks my father undertook, to provide opportunities for me that seemed so far removed, against the odds and constraints of apartheid. Thanks, Dad.
Track 10: The flute, a seer sits in deep meditation chanting the various shades of that primordial sound, Aum, trying to reach that silent space between thoughts. That all-pervading 'silence' of which he is a part. An angel, in the form of a piano, beckons him while the strings in the form of three chords (Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh) cradles him. He dances in the bliss. Suddenly! Body-mind consciousness re-emerges and he finds himself in the chaos once again, struggling to re-enter that blissful place between thoughts. The angel (Piano) re-appears; he dances again in that bliss.
These tunes were all written during the past ten years. Some of them are extracts and themes from larger compositions written for western classical and jazz ensembles. They all use elements of indian music in varying degrees.
(P) + (C) 1998 M.E.L.T. 2000
Made in the EC.
Price: 15.- €
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