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Music : Miles From India - A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis
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Miles From India - A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis by: Miles From India List Price: £19.99 CD-Charts Price: £12.98 You Save: £7.01 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0822545180821 Label: Times Square Manufacturer: Times Square Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Times Square Release Date: June 02, 2008 Studio: Times Square Sales Rank: 9042 MPN: 1808 Disc 1: Disc 2: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Essential addition to the canon of reworked MilesSome people have been disappointed that this project did not realise its full hybrid potential, and perhaps not unduly so. However, we must remember that the music of Miles' electric period was already inflected with Indian musical structures and musicians, irrespective of the extent of explicitly Indian instrumentation (surely part of its appeal to me). On Miles From India I will concede that some tracks are more successful than others in their achievement of indo-jazz synergy. But for example, Spanish Key is absolutely incredible- a really distinctive interpretation with a pronounced Indian inflection, and reason alone to purchase this. As an obsessive about this era of Miles' music, this rendition really caught my attention, filling me with ... Read More: Rating: - Brilliant JazzPeople tend to get too deep describing classic music played by a fusion of eastern musicians with western jazz stars. All that matters is - does it sound good? This album just goes to underline just how good the music Miles Davis and his various colleagues produced over the years and how it is absolutely timeless. The striking thing about this recording is how fresh it is, absolutely no sign of when the original music was made. For me the Indian classical musicians actually improve, or at the very least equal the sound of the original recordings. The sitars, drums and other instruments, with occasional vocals ,mixing with the traditional horns etc. make Miles' music truly worldwide. Now one of my best albums and one of my best investments this ... Read More: Rating:  - Miles apartThis double CD represents a large project with numerous musicians, in a number of combinations, and playing a number of Davis's more popular compositions from the 60's and 70's. So admittedly it is difficult to take in just in one go. Whilst rating it as "good/3 stars", Miles From India has not instantly become one of my favourite Indo-jazz fusion albums or likely to be. Why: because of a number of petty annoyances it carries with it, neither does it have the degree of integration of two distinct musical styles, and instead the joins show on a number of tracks. So I offer a number of questions and observations: a) whilst appreciating cost limitations, does recording at a several locations on the planet and with musicians not ... Read More: |
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