Mr. Powell used to immortalize his solo albums in a few places. This one was recorded between the years 2003 and 2006 in Czech, Switzerland, Greece, Austria and Canada. It was created by unorthodox artists on equally unusual instruments: Edward Powell (sitar, fretless and slide guitar, tanpura, baritone oud, gambribass, afrobass, frame drums, riqq, percussion, vocals, surbahar, tanbur, dotar, cura and various instruments from Ross Daly's collection), Sandeep Kumar (tabla, ghatam, dugli, duff, percussion, panjabi dhol, dolak, frame drums), Ulf Gjerdingen (contrabass, fretless bass guitar), Pat Feldner (kalimba, karkabou, percussion) and guests - Karin Gelnarová (vocals), Karl Schreiber (violin), Elena Kubickova (esraj), Niel Golden (tabla), Pedram and Peggie (duff and zarb groove loop).
"Spiritdance", as its title indicates, is filled out with a kind of world music which can bolster us up. Its hallmarks are hypnotic and a little improvised fragments. If we want to understand this st
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