Paul Livingstone - sitar, fretless & fretted guitars & requintos
Pedro Eustache - flutes, reeds & world winds
Peter Jacobson - cello & bass
Abhijit Banerjee - tabla
Dave Lewis - drums
Guests & Past collaborating musicians:
Lian Ensemble, Leonice Shinneman, Poovalur Sriji, John Bergamo, Nikki Campbell, Anand Bennett, Miroslav Tadic, Javier Vergara, Geetha Bennett, Randy Gloss, Jonathan Diamond, Chris ’Khal’ Moore, Dana Harlow, Leticia Meza
Influences
Our deepest classical influences for this music... Allaudin Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nikhil Banerjee, Alla Rakha, L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Subash Chandran, Swapan Chaudhuri to name a few...
Our favorite Indian crossover groups... Shakti, Bracha, John McLaughlin, Trilok Gurtu & the Beatles (HEY who let those lads crossover into the US anyway?)
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Sounds Like
Well... lets see in a bragadocious world maybe it sounds a bit like our influences... Ravi Shankar, Shakti, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nikhil Banerjee, Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, Swapan Chaudhuri, L. Shankar, Bracha...
Paul Livingstone is an international performing artist, composer & ensemble leader. He performs in the creative tradition of Indian classical music, which he has played around the US, Mexico, Spain & South East Asia.
Paul has dedicated himself to the sitar, studying & playing classical North Indian music for the past 20 years. Paul has learned from Amiya Dasgupta, Rajeev Taranath & the living legend Pt. Ravi Shankar.
Paul also plays a number of fretless and world guitars some of which he has designed himself. He has studied diverse traditions of world music including jazz, Persian, Javanese, African, Macedonian & Brazilian music, which he incorporates into his own music.
Paul has composed music for film, television & has released 2 cds of his own music Arohi & Salaam Suite. Paul will be releasing his 1st cd of purely Indian classical music this spring 2006. You can hear an except here.
Pt. Ravi Shankar commented on his Arohi music as a, "very effective & impressive approach." Paul teaches music at Cal Arts & at the Sangeet School of World Music in Los Angeles. For more information go online to: www.tanpura.com
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hi arohi, your webpage www. tanpura. com is great. useful information about indian classic. two wweks back i recived my surbahar from india. such a incredible sound. regards, kieran
you must have forgotten...you were supposed to take me WITH you to India! Hope you had a great time!!! Miss your face. I play your Arohi CD every day ... these days. ;)
what a wonderful being you are! may your music and all your life be blessed by the spirit. Enjoy your time in India my friend, many hugs for you and family...
Pablo, you sound so killer on this track. I love this raga and am so proud of you. You sound like on of the greats, as you are on your way to being one. Love to you and your beautiful girls(all 3)PEREZPRADO
Just dropping by to say that in celebration of the rare Ancient Future Guitar-Sitar Jugalbandi show March 31, 2007, at Northern California's Larkspur Cafe Theatre, we have finally added our fourth myspace song: a live version of the song Socha Socha from the Planet Passion CD that was recorded for the Echoes Radio Living Room Concert Series. For a limited time only, we are offering it as a free download. It's not available on iTunes or any other download site, and it will be removed on April 1, so download it while you can. Hope you enjoy this gift to our myspace friends!
Bonjour, hello, Namaste.
Thank you for added me .
I'm musician drummer.
I love your music.
My musical world is open .
I learn from many people from different country.
It's so good.
Thank you to be here.
May god bless you and yours.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Christian
I hope this message finds you well. Just want to let everyone know, we've got the site up and running again. Please come by and let me know what you think. Thanks!
warm thanks for the add...
great sounds here.
Pedro is a favorite of mine -
the most versatile world wind
player! All good things to you.
God's peace & blessings, Mark Holland
You guys were AWESOME last night. WOW !!!!!!!!!! And I didn't know Laticia was in the Arohi Ensemble!! :-) What a great night. Thank you so much for the invitations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look forward to seein gyou again soon.
