Mawal - This is all there is, There is no other place
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ANCIENT08
"One year after the last release “Black Flies” Jim Matus (formerly Paranoise) has taken another step forward in his explorations in world fusion. This one is a decidedly more acoustic sound while retaining all Mawwal’s depth and intensity. Some amazing guest artists appear on this recording. On bass, Percy Jones, (Brand X, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Tunnels) Middle Eastern percussionist Shane Shanahan (Yo Yo Ma, Glen Velez) Rohan Gregory on violin, (Klezmatics) Indian Tabla master Harshal Tole, master African drummer Tony Vacca and iconoclastic harmonic vocalist Jim Cole."
"From the first track, listening to Mawwal's this is all there is, there is no other place is like absorbing some bizarre hallucinogenic compound through your armpits in a Waziristan sweat lodge. Drawing heavily on traditional Middle Eastern/ South Asian music and academic icons like Joe Zawinul and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the contemporary arrangement of these rooted-in-tradition pieces is, well, seriously cool."-Tom Sturm/Valley Advocate