| Karavan Sarai / Woven Landscapes |
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| Album: | Woven Landscapes | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Karavan Sarai | Added: | Jan 2016 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-01-10 | Pull Date: | 2016-03-15 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Mar 20 | Feb 28 | Feb 7 | Jan 31 | Jan 24 | Jan 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 14, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 34 Desert Water | 4. | Feb 05, 2016: | Emergency Crew 063620 fri 2-5-16 jazz Desert Water | |
| 2. | Feb 27, 2016: | Music Casserole Upon My Own Hand | 5. | Jan 28, 2016: | Melange River Bend | |
| 3. | Feb 06, 2016: | Music Casserole River Bend | 6. | Jan 21, 2016: | Melange Upon My Own Hand |
| Album Review |
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| Margy Kahn Reviewed 2016-01-07 | ||
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Electro-acoustic music from an American born musician who calls himself Narayan Sijan. He has traveled widely to produce these fusion pieces meant to evoke Eastern landscapes; nice variety of sounds, melodies, timbres NO FCC's detected; Favorite tracks: 3, 4, 6, 8 1-The Journey-(5:50) – textured and layered string piece with percussion and drone background 2-Schirin-5:22-- original composition with words of Sufi poem recited Arabic folded into it *3- River Bend -(7:06)- starts off mysteriously with saz and drones and adds wondrous textures; inspired by crossing the Bosphorus *4-The Road to Hijaz (3:44) – Nice springy percussive start with drums and oud in the Hijaz mode; amalgam of songs heard on the road; evocative of the Arabian peninsula 5- Caspian Sea (9:17) – music inspired by traveling on the Karakoram Highway with Sufi poem lines woven in *6-Upon My Own Hand (4:21) – sounds Turkish or Kurdish; pretty song with nice springy beat; you can “see” the starry sky described in the individual high treble notes 7-Desert Water (7:14) –Inspired by Rajasthan, with Indian (not sure what language) lyrics and Indian-sounding instrumentation *8-High Mountain (6:07) – Inspired by Jerusalem and Mount Zion; marching rhythm; somber | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | The Journey | 5. | Caspian Sea | |||
| 2. | Schirin | 6. | Upon My Own Hand | |||
| 3. | River Bend | 7. | Desert Water | |||
| 4. | The Road To Hijaz | 8. | High Mountain |