Artist: Trilok Gurtu
Title Of Album: The Beat of Love
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Blue Thumb
Genre: World Fusion
Format: Flac/Cue/Log
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 50:16
Total Size: 353 MB(+3%)
Artist: Trilok Gurtu
Title Of Album: The Beat of Love
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Blue Thumb
Genre: World Fusion
Format: Flac/Cue/Log
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 50:16
Total Size: 353 MB(+3%)
Tracklist
01. Maya
02. Friend
03. Have We Lost Our Dream?
04. Beat of Love
05. Passing By
06. Jhulelal
07. Ingoma
08. Tuhe
09. Ola Bombay
10. Dance With My Lover
11. Peace of the Five Elements
personnel :
Trilok Gurtu — tabla, drums, percussion, vocals, shaker
Wally Badarou — keyboards, programming
Amit Heri — guitar
Sabine Kabongo — background vocals
Angelique Kidjo — vocals
Salif Keita — vocals
Aziz & Habib — dhorak
Bharati Desai — vocals
Farouk — rebab
Hilaire Penda — bass
Mryudula Desai — vocals
Nandini Sirkar — vocals
Nicolas Fiszman — guitar
Jabu Khanyile — vocals
Wasis Diop — vocals
Ravi Chary — sitar
Sunil Das — percussion
Trilok Gurtu has recorded his share of instrumental jazz and worked
with jazz heavyweights like Joe Zawinul and Pat Metheny, but you
won’t find any jazz whatsoever on The Beat of Love. For myopic,
narrow-minded jazz snobs who believe that jazz is the only form of
music that has a right to exist, the CD’s lack of jazz is a
problem. But for broad-minded world music enthusiasts, The Beat of
Love is a fine addition to Gurtu’s catalog. Produced by West Africa
native Wally Badarou, this album is meant to fuse modern Indian pop
with the rhythms of black Africa (as opposed to Arabic North
Africa). And the two prove to be quite compatible; on The Beat of
Love, African elements sound perfectly logical alongside Indian
rhythms and instruments. The voices of well-known African singers
like Salif Keita and Angelique Kidjo sound right at home with
Indian instruments such as the sitar and tabla drums. But The Beat
of Love isn’t just about Indian and African elements — Gurtu
combines those things with American funk and electronica. Of
course, the modern pop sounds of India and black Africa are heavily
influenced by Western pop and funk, and Gurtu is well aware of
that. So if The Beat of Love is a musical tour of India and black
Africa, there are also stops in the United States and Europe. And,
in fact, the CD was produced in four different countries — not
only India and South Africa, but also the U.S. and England. With a
lot of help from Badarou, Gurtu sees to it that The Beat of Love is
an unpredictable but consistently appealing celebration of
multiculturalism. ~ Alex Henderson
