Sublime Dezine Records

Indo Reel by Vidroha Jamie.
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Celtic and Indian music
featuring a group of world class
musicians: Vidroha Jamie (Celtic guitars),
Kit Walker (jazz piano, bass),
Prem Joshua (sitar, bamboo flutes), and
Manish Vyas (tablas).

Guitars, tablas, violin, piano, bamboo flutes, trumpet,
sitar, bass, and drums give voice to Vidroha Jamie’s richly
layered Indian, Celtic, and jazz fusion. Innocent, joyful,
sometimes haunting, Indo Reel features a group
of world class musicians including Kit Walker (jazz
piano), Prem Joshua (sitar, bamboo flutes), and
Manish Vyas (tablas).

iTunes - Click here. Screenshot of the iTunes Music interface at right. Going to iTunes will open the iTunes application on your computer and will go automatically to the "Indo Reel" CD section. You can listen there also to the music, and select any or all of the tracks to download - for .99 cents each. Advantage: It's the coolest way to download music.

eMusic - Click here. eMusic screenshot to right here. This link simply takes you to the website in your current browser, and you download the music from there as mp3 files, which you then have to organize yourself and import into your music program yourself.

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Musicians:

 

Vidroha Jamie (guitars)
Jamie grew up with the folk, rock, and blues styles of bands such as Crosby, Stills and Nash, and the Band. He began guitar lessons at age 14, and was avid to learn the acoustic pop/blues picking styles of the artists he admired. His other love was the theater and after studying acting, fencing, and stage combat in the graduate program at the Asolo Theatre in Florida, he abandoned a career in acting to travel to India to embark on an exploration of meditation and personal growth in the international commune of Osho in India. It was then he became interested in the mystical relationship between music, silence, and meditation. Jamie lived in India for 12 years and began developing his own unique guitar style and melodic compositions blended with softer jazz chords and influenced by the experience of the Eastern meditation traditions he was exploring. Jamie is currently on the board of the Osho Meditation Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to meditation and personal growth in Boulder, CO. He's very happy with the group of musicians with whom he shares these creations. His previous album Celtic Ragas won the praise of Paul McCartney, and is similar in style, a more simple offering of melodies with fewer intruments, but just as much poignancy.

 

Kit Walker (piano, bass) website
Award winning, gammy nominated producer Kit Walker's first solo piano recording was 'Wind Follows the Tiger', and he followed that with what became his first Windham Hill Jazz release, 'Dancing on the Edge of the World', which was released in 1986. After reaching to the top 10 with that album, next came 'Fire in the Lake', which was also well received worldwide. He also played numerous festivals and concerts with his own band, including the Russian River Jazz festival, and Yoshi's, sharing the stage with artists such as Chick Corea, Richie Beirach, Tuck and Patti, and Kitaro, performing with Jai Uttal's band, the Pagan Love Orchestra, appearing on his album 'Shiva Station', and working with Neal Schon, guitarist from Journey and Santana on his third solo album, 'Electric World.' Full discography here.

Prem Joshua (bamboo flutes, sitar) website
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Prem Joshua draws inspiration from the deep wells of eastern music traditions. With his music Prem Joshua has toured all over the world, giving concerts in the USA, Japan, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the whole of Europe.

Albums: Water Down the Ganges, Dance of Shakti, Sky Kisses Earth, Mudra, Secret of the Wind, Desert Visions, Hamsafar, Tales of a Dancing River, Tribal Gathering, No Goal But The Path. Full discography here.

Talia Toni Marcus (violin)
Talia Toni Marcus, a concert violinist and composer, has composed for film, television and theatre, and recorded with numerous outstanding classical, jazz and rock performers. Her classical training and improvisational skills have been influenced by studies with Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Pran Nath and time spent in the Jazz & Rock music world. She received "Most Valuable Player of the Year Award" for her work with Van Morrison in the late 70's including the CD "Into the Music".

Credits: She has recorded and played with Pavoratti, Kenny G., Ornette Coleman, Jermaine Jackson, Carla Bley's Jazz Composers Orchestra, The New American Orchestra, and was the featured soloist on the film score for An Officer and a Gentleman. Talia has received artist-in-residence grants from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Scola Sperimental in Rome, and American Student Center in Paris.

Walt Kerik (drum kit, percussion)
Walt is a drummer and percussionist since 12 years, mostly working in northern California. He has recorded with Jamie and Kit, and sat in with other local talents including Celtic Songsters, Kwoods TWIST'D XMAS, PAPA ROACH, and Downa Well Orchestra.

Manish Vyas (tablas) website
Albums: SATTVA , Water Down The Ganges, Healing Ragas, Rejoicing, Sufi Splendor, White Swan Music, EUROPE - All sense vision, INDIA: Oceanic Sound and Vision

Manish is a multi-instrumentalist and singer, his Indian music influences include classical, to 'kirtan' to folk. He began playing Tabla at age 9. A few years of basic initial training let him to the feet of Maestro, Ustad Allarakha in Mumbai, where his training continued for 5 years. Over the last 10 years he has worked with many recording names in the New Age music world today, namely Deva Premal, Prem Joshua, Chinmaya Dunster, Shastro, Yashu, and many more. Full discography here.

Chinmaya Dunster (sarod) plays on Indo Reel album only.
After attending Art College and oddjobbing as a farmhand, Chinmaya took himself off, watercolors and Spanish guitar in hand, on the hippy trail-- that led through Afghanistan to India. It was at an all -night concert in New Delhi in 1979 where he heard a performance by the world-famous sarodist Amjad Ali Khan and instantly fell in love with the sarod (a nineeteen-stringed, banjo-like Indian classical instrument). Chinmaya dedicated the next thirteen years to the study of Indian classical music on the sarod, both in London and at the Osho Commune in Pune, India. His collaboration with Jamie on their album Celtic Ragas led to his and Jamie's meeting with Paul McCartney, a high point in both their careers.

Tanmayo Boydd (violin)
Classically trained in both violin and piano from the age of 7, Tanmayo is widely experienced in both orchestral and solo settings. She has since gone on to explore a wide variety of musical styles, performing in festivals, theatres, concert halls and on radio and television in her native Scotland. More recently she played with the group 'Celtic Ragas' for Sir Paul McCartney with Jamie. In addition, Tanmayo is also an accomplished singer, appearing in settings as diverse as a Glasgow jazz quartet, the Celtic fusion band, 'In a Split Second' and the London Gospel Choir.

Ashik Lynch (penny whistle)
Albums: Gypsy Soul, New Earth Records

Ashik's music reflects the many musical worlds he has travelled in. He studied violin from the age of ten. At 14 he was given a guitar and learned to play classical guitar and a variety of folk and blues styles. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 1968 he founded the acoustic trio "Mythica" that made a mark in English clubs and on the BBC with a blend of folk, blues and poetry.

In 1977 he wandered through Mexico and Central America on foot, supporting himself by playing tin whistle on the streets. He went to India in 1979, backpacking his violin through the Himalayas, and settled at the Rajneesh ashram where he played with musicians from all over the world and learned to play the electric bass. In London in the early 80's he went deep into the Irish music of his roots, and joined the Medina Ceilidh band on fiddle. He moved to Japan in 1989 where he played Irish dances on the streets of Yokohama and toured and recorded in Japan and Europe with the legendary Okinawan folk singer Shokichi Kina.