PGM 768 "PAISLEY MUSIC"

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   PGM 768 : "PAISLEY MUSIC"
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   PGM NOTE : an AL GROMER KHAN retrospective
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   FEED DATE : 6-02-06
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   INTRO: With this languid blues, we begin a journey into the
   exotic ambient music of German artist AL GROMER KHAN.
      Every real artist has a story, and his begins with a concert
   of Indian music by VILAYAT KHAN he attended as a young man in the
   1960s. So powerful was the impression it made upon him that he
   immediately decided to devote his life to the study of the sitar,
   eventually changing his surname and becoming the first European
   member of the khan-i-garana — a lineage of Indian musicians.
      While Indian at heart, he retained his German work ethic and
   comfort with technology — which served him well during a long
   and productive career marked by over 20 solo albums and 16
   collaborations on a dozen record labels. Inspired by the sublime
   aesthetics of the Mughul culture of 17th century India (which
   produced the Taj Mahal), his subtle, poetic style of contemplative
   music is marked by an effortless originality. Whether using the
   latest electronics or a three-thousand year old Indian instrument,
   no one sounds quite like him.

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 AL GROMER KHAN
  Blue Raga < 0:00->5:54 >
   : TANTRA DRUMS; New Earth NE 9803-2; 1998
   : Info: www.newearthrecords.com; www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN and KAI TASCHNER
  Black Marble and Sweet Fire (part) < 5:54->11:21 >
   : BLACK MARBLE & SWEET FIRE; Hearts of Space HS11061-2; 1996
   : Info: www.valley-entertainment.com/Labels/Hearts_of_Space;
     www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN
  Stamboul Train (part) < 11:21->19:34 >
   : TURYA; Rasa Records/TeaTime Music 84467; Germany 2006
   : Info: www.rasamusic.de; www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN
  La Chanson de la Rose < 19:34->26:37 >
   : SPACE HOTEL; New Earth NE 9601-2; 1996
   : Info: www.newearthrecords.com; www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN
  Khanqah < 26:37->32:48 >
  Ya Aziz (Ambient-Adagio-Alap) (part) < 32:48->39:06 >
   : SUFI; New Earth NE 2007-2; 2000
   : Info: www.newearthrecords.com; www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN
  Taj (part) < 39:06->47:13 >
   : MAHOGANY NIGHTS; Hearts of Space HS11020-2; 1990
   : Info: www.valley-entertainment.com/Artists/Al_Gromer_Khan;
     www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN
  Door of the Minbar < 47:13->52:23 >
   : BEAUTIFUL MARVA; Aquarius International Music AIM 0014;
     Germany 1993
   : Info: www.aquariusmusic.com/kamasutra; www.algromerkhan.com

 AL GROMER KHAN
  Mumtaz < 52:23->58:20 >
   : MAHOGANY NIGHTS; Hearts of Space HS11020-2; 1990
   : Info: www.valley-entertainment.com/Artists/Al_Gromer_Khan;
     www.algromerkhan.com

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   PRODUCED BY : STEVE DAVIS and STEPHEN HILL
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   BAY AREA WEATHER : langoroso
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   (c) 2006 Hearts of Space
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