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Durga Rising - An Indo-Jazz Adventure

Kuljit Bhamra | Format: Audio CD
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Kuljit Bhamra is a British composer, record producer and musician whose main instrument is the tabla. He is best known as one of the record producers who pioneered the British Bhangra sound and for his many collaborations with musicians from different genres and continents. In 2009 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honour's List with the citation 'For services to Bhangra and British… Read more in Amazon's Kuljit Bhamra Store

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  • Audio CD (30 Jan 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Keda Records
  • ASIN: B005KDZZQG
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 79,203 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Watch Me As I Fall
2. Still Moving
3. How Could I Ever
4. Deeper and Deeper
5. Tears in a Bottle
6. The Cutter
7. Bombay Dreaming
8. Choose To Be Alone
9. Go Down Easy
10. Unchain My Heart
11. Spit It Out
12. Crimes Against Nature
13. Train on the Move
14. Blind Willie McTell
15. We Don't Walk Alone

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Back in 1996, vocalist Barb Jungr had toured the world with the British Council but not yet released her first solo album; Kuljit Bhamra was a successful percussionist and Bhangra producer but had not yet worked on the soundtrack to Bend It Like Beckham or recorded with saxophonist Andy Sheppard; and pianist Russell Churney (who died tragically young, of cancer, in 2007) was a renowned musical director and composer.

In that year, the three recorded Durga Rising. Although previously available via mail order, this expanded version is released properly for the first time. Subtitled "an Indo-Jazz Adventure", it seamlessly combines Indian percussion with jazz vocals into an amalgam that sounds like a natural combination. Credit goes to Bhamra whose choice of rhythms and percussion gives an Indian flavour to the music without unduly altering it.

Eleven of the album’s 15 songs are originals by members of the trio, the remaining four being cover versions. As on Jungr’s solo albums, those covers come from a surprising range of sources, yet her interpretations reinvent them, making them her own. In typical fashion, she conveys the nuances of every line, singing them all as if she has lived each experience and emotion.

Jungr devotees will be delighted – but not surprised – that the album’s outstanding track is a version of Dylan’s Blind Willie McTell, her first recording of one of his songs. Lasting nine minutes, it begins gently but steadily intensifies before a fine cello solo from Stan Adler and Jungr’s wailing harmonica solo lead to an impassioned climax.

Just as impressive are the sensuous version of John Martyn’s Go Down Easy and the cello-driven reworking of The Cutter by Echo & The Bunnymen. Vital to the album’s success, the originals manage to hold their own in such exalted company. They cover a broad spectrum from the catchy pop-inflected Watch Me as I Fall, by Bhamra-Jungr, to the more emotionally harrowing Choose to be Alone by Churney-Jungr and the powerful Green message of Crimes Against Nature by Jungr and guest guitarist James Tomalin.

Like vintage wine, Durga Rising has matured beautifully in the years since its original release.

--John Eyles

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'Durga Rising' is an Indo-Jazz adventure featuring acclaimed vocalist Barb Jungr and leading Indian percussionist Kuljit Bhamra. It's a unique mix of European, Asian, Jazz, Blues, Bhangra and RnB musical influences and as well as original material it also includes interpretations of classic contemporary tracks by the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, John Martyn and Bob Dylan. Barb Jungr and Kuljit Bhamra aren't the most obvious musical bedfellows: Jungr is a leading exponent of the jazz art-song tradition, whereas tabla player and producer Bhamra, is a distinguished pioneer of the British Asian music scene. Back in the mid-1990s however, the pair came together in a wildly adventurous sonic collaboration that saw them merge Asian, cabaret, blues and plain old pop music influences in a singularly eclectic fusion of sounds. The resulting album, Durga Rising (Durga is the name of a powerful Hindu goddess), was deemed by critics to be ahead of its time. Its reissue this month in an expanded form includes tracks such as Echo And The Bunnyinen's "The Cutter", in a euphoric, cello-led, raga-flavoured arrangement, John Martyn's "Go Down Easy" and Dylan's brooding "Blind Willie McTell" with utterly distinctive reworkings. A musically uplifting album without genre boundaries. "Viscous Raga Rhythms...Earthy but Exultant" - All Music

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I considered myself a Barb Jungr fan, and I know Russell Churney from the Julian Clary show, but I didn't know about this album! What a lovely surprise it is. Kuljit Bhamra adds a beautiful Indian flavour to the classy jazz and pop that makes up most of the album. There are some great covers too. Barb is great with Bob Dylan songs as we've all seen recently and her version of "Blind Willie McTell" on here is wonderfully atmospheric. So is her version of John Martyn's languid "Go Down Easy". But the originals are superb too. "Choose To Be Alone" is a bitter love song, but very comical too. Several songs wouldn't be out of place in the charts. Well the charts of the classic era of the '60s and '70s anyway! "Watch Me As I Fall" is, well, hypnotic and "Tears In A Bottle" sounds like a West Coast American orchestral pop hit from 1969. There are some nice experimental bits too, without getting too weird, and even some raunchy blues. I haven't heard a better, more interesting, all-round album for a long time.
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Durga Rising 12 Feb 2012
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Durga Rising is a fantastic combination of Indo-jazz music. This c.d is an update of the original version which was ahead of it's time, with additional tracks - Watch me as I fall, How could I ever, Deeper and deeper and We don't walk alone. It contains Barb's best interpretation of 'Blind Willie McTell while Bombay Dreaming is an extremely catchy song, a great marriage of Indo and Jazz music styles.
The combination of cultures works due to Kuljit Bhamra's talent as a percussionist of Asian music and Barb's unique interpretations of songs.
Look out for the live shows of Durga Rising which truly enhance the interprtation of the joint styles
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