Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering is an album by bassist Jonas Hellborg, released on 25 January 2003 through Bardo Records. The album merges contemporary jazz-fusion and traditional Indian improvised music[2][3][4] and features guitarist Shawn Lane in his last officially released studio recording before his death in September of that year,[5] as well as the sons of ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram: Selvaganesh (kanjeera), Umashankar (ghatam) and Umamamesh (vocals), who also perform passages of konnakol, the vocal "scatting" often used as a memory device by Indian percussionists.[6] The album's name stands for a common cross-cultural ideal image, beyond vanity and self-identity, also present in this kind of musical communication.[7]
Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 25 January 2003 | |||
Recorded | Air Edel Studios in London, England; Bardo Studios in New York City; The Dungeon in Memphis, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion, world fusion | |||
Length | 59:19 | |||
Label | Bardo | |||
Producer | Jonas Hellborg | |||
Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
All tracks are written by Jonas Hellborg and V. Selvaganesh
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Anchor" | 15:02 |
2. | "Mirror" | 23:20 |
3. | "Vehicle" | 16:11 |
4. | "Escape" | 4:46 |
Total length: | 59:19 |
Highly eclectic and imaginative, composer Jonas Hellborg paves the way for new jazz coming out of India.