JAI UTTAL AND THE PAGAN LOVE ORCHESTRA: Beggars and Saints

Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra

Beggars and Saints

© 1994 Jai Uttal (801298201229)

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A stimulating and exotic multi-cultural fusion that is truly world spirit music.

tracks

1 Lake of Exploits
2 Hara Shiva Shankara
3 Be With You
4 Gopala
5 Rama Bolo
6 Radhe Radhe
7 Menoka
8 Beggars and Saints
9 Lake of Exploits Pt. 2
10 Conductor
11 Coda

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Jai Uttal takes another trans-cultural leap with Beggars and Saints. Travelling again along another tributary of the North-Indian fountainhead of World Music fusion, Jai blends street smart funk with the melodies and rhythms of the sub-continent. Featuring the Pagan Love Orchestra, Beggars and Saints moves from haunting vocals to trance dance beats and seductive meditations with the

Beggars and Saints is one of dotar player and chant master Jai Uttal's more spiritual albums, reaching deep into his bag of Hindustani devotional lyrics and ragas to create a music saturated in South Asian instrumentation (tabla, harmonium, dunbek) and American pop savvy. Open-minded listeners appreciative of Uttal's authentic passion for both cultures will find the winning card here. While "Be with You" begs for smooth-jazz airplay, tunes like "Gopala" and "Hara Shiva Shankara" show that Uttal's serious about his Asian influences. His life was changed forever while in India, where he studied under the great sarod legend Ali Akbar Khan, and he incorporates his lessons of musical spirituality well here. Uttal's voice has a rootsy, robust tone that's gradually magnetic and tips the scales toward success--along with some infectious, relaxed jams. An interesting and pleasant experiment in South Asian-American music that offers intriguing ends. --Amazon.com

Jai Uttal, a sacred music composer, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist, combines influences from India with influences from rock, folk, hip-hop and jazz creating a stimulating and exotic multi-cultural fusion that is truly world spirit music. "Mondo Rama", Jai's latest album with his band the Pagan Love Orchestra was nominated for a 2003 Grammy award as "Best New Age Album".

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  • longing with a beat
    author: meg rinaldi

    lovely, lyrical, luscious. i love everything jai uttal brings to us via the muse of devotion.

  • Silved-threaded music to take you up the River
    author: Randal Doering

    These are songs for relaxation, for imagining the Amazon and the Ganges and flights of bright-colored birds over misty jungle mornings. Here are songs of modern spirits with cell phones walking across rooftop gardens in major cities, checking in with family and friends, voice to voice and heart to heart half a world away. Lie back, hit "play" and let Jai lead you to distant places and different worlds, and you won't be sorry--

  • Beautiful beautiful collection of music that I totally relate to
    author: Winnie

    I particularly love Be with you - I love the words . Jai Uttal's talent is unbelievable.My best friend introduced me to his music - I just love it!

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