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SHAKTI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 THE PIONEERING GLOBAL FUSION ENSEMBLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CO-FOUNDED BY JOHN McLAUGHLIN AND ZAKIR HUSSAIN \u2013 RELEASE FIRST NEW STUDIO RECORDING IN 45 YEARS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhilaratingly hopeful \u201cMohanam\u201d is drawn from upcoming full-length album This Moment, due in Summer 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born of an immense degree of both soul-searching and woodshedding, Shakti emerged in the early 1970s \u2013 shattering the barriers between Eastern and Western music with an ecstatic, soulful hybrid that knowingly embodied both traditions while setting out for uncharted musical terrain. Shakti\u2019s catalyst was the meeting of guitarist and composer John McLaughlin and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain. Both had already achieved a certain degree of notoriety in their musical domains. John, through his association with Miles Davis and his immensely successful group The Mahavishnu Orchestra: Zakir through his amazing classical work and his collaborations with the California music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hussain and McLaughlin had become friends in 1969 and met musically one evening at the house of the late great Ali Akbar Khan. To quote McLaughlin, \u201cIt was a revelation playing with Zakir\u201d. McLaughlin subsequently began studying the Vina with Dr. S. Ramanathan and through him met with Dr. L. Shankar himself a head at the South Indian Music department at Wesleyan University and by 1973 had brought Zakir, violinist L. Shankar and the head of the percussion department Ramnad Raghavan playing the mridangam for the very first time. It was at once, a marriage of the tonal and rhythmic intricacies of classical Indian music with the immediacy and soul of Jazz. This first formation of Shakti recorded its first live recording in 1975 and released in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their unprecedented music awakened subsequent generations to the rich, untapped potential of such pan-cultural fusions and helped to create what is now known as \u201cWorld Music.\u201d While the initial lineup of Shakti disbanded in 1978, Hussain and McLaughlin have periodically resurrected the Shakti group for live performances and concert recordings \u2013 but have not released a new studio album since 1977\u2019s Natural Elements\u2026until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMohanam\u201d \u2013 available for streaming\/download \u2013 is the first new studio music from Shakti in more than 45 years. Drawn from the upcoming album This Moment (to be released on CD and vinyl in the summer of 2023 by Abstract Logix), the track glimmers with optimism and wonder as it moves with unhurried grace through a series of instrumental movements that acknowledge Shakti\u2019s formidable legacy while proposing new routes. \u201c\u2018Mohanam\u2019 is a joyful piece,\u201d explains McLaughlin, \u201cand joy is the inherent nature of the Shakti group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lineup featured on \u201cMohanam\u201d \u2013 McLaughlin (guitar) and Hussain (tabla) are featured alongside vocalist Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan, and percussionist Selvaganesh Vinayakram (son of original Shakti ghatam player T.H. \u201cVikku\u201d Vinayakram). On \u201cMohanam,\u201d Hussain and Vinayakram are also featured on konokol \u2013 a traditional and demanding form of Indian vocal percussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis track harkens back to the Mohanam raga track from the second Shakti album,\u201d says Hussain, \u201cbut dresses the mode sonically into where we are today. The arrangement, the quality of the recording, the instrumentation, the addition of vocals, and the harmonic undertones all suggest today’s Shakti while paying respect to the first Shakti quartet.\u201d The performers\u2019 virtuosity is certainly undimmed by time, with McLaughlin\u2019s guitar impossibly fleet, moving between jazz chromaticism and more modal, Indian harmonies. In addition to stirring solo statements, Rajagopalan\u2019s violin, Mahadevan\u2019s voice, and McLaughlin\u2019s guitar also execute nimble unison passages \u2013 all over the roiling, hypnotic undercurrent of Hussain and Vinayakram\u2019s percussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn our initial incarnation,\u201d Hussain reflects, \u201cwe did not always have the time nor the means to explore. Now, with the decades of individual music experiences we all have had poured into this gathering’s offering, the result reveals an extraordinary depth and level of interaction within this band.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShakti will always be Shakti,\u201d concludes McLaughlin. \u201cIt has its own identity, its own nature \u2013 joyful \u2013 and character: daring. These are in the DNA of Shakti, which will never change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download “Mohanam” here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanam (Meta Data)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Album Title: This Moment ISRC: USJQK6800001<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Album Catalog #: ABLX 68 Label: Abstract Logix<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genre(s): Fusion, World Music, Jazz, Indian Classical<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personnel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John McLaughlin (Guitar, Guitar Synth) Zakir Hussain (Tabla, Konokol)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shankar Mahadevan (Vocals & Konokol) Ganesh Rajagopalan (Violin, Konokol)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selvaganesh Vinayakram (Mridangam, Ghatam, Konokol) Composer: Selvaganesh Vinayakram<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced and arranged by Selvaganesh & J. McLaughlin Mixed at Eastcote Studios London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engineer: George Murphy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Producers: Shweta & Souvik Dutta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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