Picture a 12-piece orchestra with percussion from Africa, the Americas, India, and the Middle East; a rainbow of wind instruments (shenai, musette, kudu horn, bass clarinet, tuba, saxophone, trumpet, flute); and ethereal strings (cello, harp, violin, and classical acoustic and electric MIDI guitar). Now, picture a seamless integration of those textures and tones, a ritual celebration of live trance beats, shamanistic polyrhythms, melodies with wings, drum skins on fire, space and silence between thick brush strokes of color.
The compositions are as harmonically elegant as any score in the Duke Ellington catalog. At once earthy and cosmic, Lateef & Rudolph's two-CD set transcends the myopia of genre-based thinking. Reaffirming the power of the creative spirit, The World at Peace offers up pure expression as a source of positivity and wonderment. Its cultural import spans the planet.
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Thank you for sharing this great piece of music! John
Glad you like it John!
Wow! Thank you very much. I watched Lateef's gig here in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2011, and it was just amazing. The guy was 91 years old at the time. Fantastic!
I wish I had seen him live too.Lateef is a living legend!
thank you Fantis
Could you re up please re up this gem! Just discovered it on the utube.
You have created a great blog, but hardly any recent posts. Are you hibernating?
Ευχαριστώ, Fantis!
Checkout my blog: www.subharmonia.blogspot.co.uk
and my radio show "Groovin' Around" on ambushradio.gr
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