Word: sitar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...David Horn: I don't have much musical training. I just learnt the guitar a little bit and I studied the recorder in school. And then I studied the sitar and tabla, and I taught myself Tuvan throat singing, supposedly...
...Rebeca Salmon (vocals, senior at Boston University), Neal Padte (alto sax, junior at BU), Dorian Ramirez '99 (tenor sax), Jeff Weinshenker '00 (trumpet), Annie Durston '01 (keyboard), Eliot Wadsworth '00 (guitar), Brett Sherman '00 (a.k.a. Sherm, a.k.a. Shermy, bass), Michael Blaugrund '00 (drums, percussion, back-up vocals, turntables, sitar...
...Enter Columbia Records, which urged the band to return to their original hard rock sound, the sound which carried the band's first two albums to world sales of over 10 million. Clearly, the Crowes have agreed. Out with the gawky red curtains, incense-billowing urns and pre-show sitar tracks; in with the flamboyant silver curtains, stage-length mirrors and pre-show anthem rock...
...awfully pleasant, even affecting, with the rich twang of slideguitars, the whine of a harmonica and theoccasional exotic instrument imported to shakethings up a little. Beck is nearly as playful asever, but no song on Mutations has theremarkable freshness of Odelay. When a songmakes a musical allusion--like the sitar melody onthe desolate "Nobody's Fault But My Own," whichechoes the Door's "The End"--it comes out soundingless like a tribute than an affectation. Even onthe album's best tracks, like the outstanding"Tropicalia" which bounces with an up-tempoLatin-lounge groove, Beck doesn't expand anymusical horizons...
Ravi is named after his father's friend, Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar player and composer. While attending graduate school at Cal Arts in Valencia, Calif., Ravi met Ralph Alessi, who was also the night's trumpet player. Although Ravi was the featured musician, Alessi repeatedly upstaged his friend. The captivated audience watched as Alessi proved his expertise with almost perfect synchronization. Shouts of praise and waves of applause from former students of Alessi concluded each solo. Graceful competition and mutual admiration between these two masters filled the stage...