Sublime Dezine Records produces and promotes the music from established artist Vidroha Jamie St. Clair, Suvarna Freeman, and Thomas Kunz. Indo Reel: Purchase CD | Tracks at iTunes Jamie's previous album Celtic Ragas (New Earth Records) garnered this praise from Paul McCartney: "I love the unique blend of Irish and Indian style music on this record. It has become one of my favorites." Listen to Indo Reel CD tracks: US distribution :   New Leaf Distribution, Inc. Phone: 770-948-7845 Sublime Dezine Records Wholesale Phone: 303 800 5447 email © 2004 Sublime Dezine Records Published by Tilopa Publishing / ASCAP – a mixture of Celtic, Indian, and jazz influences, which includes an international list of musicians. Vidroha Jamie St. Clair Vidroha Jamie St. Clair has teamed up with award winning and grammy nominated producer Kit Walker, and the band Indo Reel, a collection of international world musicians, to create new Indian, Celtic, and jazz fusion.Jamie, a musician for 38 years and recording artist for 18, produced his first recording of world music in 1989 in Munich Germany with a production of satsang music performed at the TAO Meditation Center. Since then he has three more CDs to his credit, and 15 years of specializing in music for meditation as well as performance. Jamie lived in India during the years 1988–-1998. His work in India included training in meditation, also as a therapist in the healing arts. After living and working for ten years in India, his musical influences shifted from rock & roll and the blues to the mystical relationship between music, silence, and meditation. His compositions and voicings took on softer contours from the Indian influence of music, and at the same time moving more towards jazz. Jamie ‘s first album, Celtic Ragas, was a collaboration with English born sarod player, Chinmaya Dunster (New Earth Records). Celtic Ragas enjoyed success in the new age music genre, and gained the recognition of Paul McCartney, who liked the music so much, he endorsed the album, saying, "I love the way they blend the Celtic and Indian music. This has become one of my favorite CDs." "My own family roots trace back to Ireland and yet when I arrived the first time in India I had the uncanny feeling of arriving home. All the musicians playing on Indo Reel have lived in India for a time, and most also visited or lived in the UK as well. The roots of this music lie in a higher discipline, that of meditating under the guidance of a master, a distinctly Eastern phenomenon. Ultimately, the real fusion of this music lies not just in that of crossing Indian melodies and instrumentation with Celtic, but of creating expression for the silence of the meditative heart, the Zen Heart, in sound and celebration." - Jamie credits: Jamie on guitars Talia Toni Marcus ....(USA) ...........violin Walt Kerik ................(USA)...........drums Prem Joshua ..........(Germany) .....bamboo flutes, sitar Manish Vyas ...........(India) ...........tablas Tanmayo ................(Scotland) .....violin Ashik Lynch ............(UK) ..............bass guitar Kit Walker ...............(USA) ............piano, bass Chinmaya Dunster ...(UK)...............sarod Michael Leuschner (Germany)........trumpet Indo Reel .. $12.00 (shipping in the US 2.00) ~ 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). What people are saying: Paul McCartney: “I love the blend of Celtic and Indian music. This has become one of my favorite CDs.” – about Jamie’s previous album, Celtic Ragas Peter Hill: "Great musicians, great music, a superb follow-up to Celtic Ragas." – President, White Swan Music, Boulder, CO Paul White: “A stunning album.” – Deva Premal’s sound engineer, BC, Canada Padma: “Indo Reel is fantastic and it will be played a lot.” – Mystic Radio Station, San Diego, CA Musicians bio information can be seen here. Produced by Kit Walker, Olema, Ca. recorded at Sublime Dezine Studio, Boulder, CO Violin for Sufi’s Solo and Indo Reel recorded by Steve Trembley at 7th Fret Music, Seattle, WA. Piano, bass, keybds recorded by Kit Walker, Olema, CA. Celtic Ragas Celtic Ragas (available here at Amazon or here at New Earth Records with real audio samples) Reviews: "I love the unique blend of Irish and Indian style music on this record. It has become one of my favorites." – Paul McCartney "This music features sarod player Chinmaya Dunster and guitarist Vidroha Jamie finding a surprisingly fertile common ground between Irish and Indian music. Dunster and Jamie, along with a group of musicians who play violin, percussion, flute, bass, and tanpura, create gentle soundscapes that range from the playful rhythms of "A Gypsy Tale" to the haunting, almost spooky beauty of "The Mists of Ruantallain." The arrangements are focused, and even on slow, meditative tracks like "Mere Hamsafar," the tempo never drags and the melodies don't meander. The mix of Indian and Irish elements works particularly well on "Tara," on which the buzzing, microtonal sound of the sarod meshes with the rhythms of a courtly dance and creates a sonic dream where the musicians of Ireland and India play in the castle of an ancient Celtic king. Dunster and Jamie describe Celtic Ragas as "Indo-Celtic chill-out music," a too-trendy term that nonetheless captures the essence of their soothing sound." -- – Michael Simmons

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INDO REEL and INFUSION musicians: Vidroha Jamie ‘s first album with New Earth Records, Celtic Ragas, gained the recognition of Paul McCartney, who said of the music that it had become one of his favorite CDs. Jamie grew up with the folk, rock, and blues styles of bands such as Crosby, Stills and Nash, and the Band. After studying acting, fencing, and stage combat 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, as well as his interest 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. This year Jamie is releasing TWO albums of music, very different in style, one Indo Reel, acoustic instrumental music with Indian and Celtic influences, and one a vocal rock album. He's very happy with the group of musicians he shares these creations with. Kit Walker (piano, bass) 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, he followed it with '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. 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. Prem Joshua (bamboo flutes, sitar) 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. Walt Kerik (drums, 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) 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. Maniko (vocals) Maniko has been writing songs, performing and singing in a diverse array of venues for over 25 years. She has produced and recorded two CDs of her original material and worked on a variety of other recording projects. She has extensive professional and experiential training in expressive arts therapies, emotional release facilitation, meditative disciplines as well as dance and movement practices as vehicles for the integration of healing and art. Her most recent album, House of the Beloved, is also produced by award winning & Grammy nominated Kit Walker (Jai Uttal, Deva Premal) to create an utterly new and contemporary sound called Ecstatic Grooves. 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. The 1990s saw four releases from Chinmaya on Nightingale Records: Spiral Dance, a collaboration with the Persian musician Sirus; a solo project Lands of the Dawn; and, after intensive study of Chinese geomancy, the two CDs Music for Feng Shui Parts 1 and 2. His release Celtic Ragas with Vidroha Jamie, a blend of Indian and Celtic elements, appeared on New Earth Records in 1998. Tanmayo Boydd (violin) Plays on Indo Reel alblum only. 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’ at the wedding of 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 (penny whistle) Plays on Indo Reel ablum only 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. page top