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▒█▌ Album......: 3 Cities
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░▌ ▐▓ Label......: Six Degrees
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Url........: http://sixdegreesrecords.com/
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Rls.Date...: Dec-12-2008 ▀▓█████▄░▓█▓░▀ ░▒▓▓█ ▒
Tracks.....: 11 ░▒▓████▌▒█▌ ░▒▓▓█ ░
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01. Egypt By Air [05:23]
02. Journey [05:40]
03. Strange Constellation [05:40]
04. Junoon [05:34]
05. Spiral [07:48]
06. Map Of Dusk [04:57]
07. Fallen [05:54]
08. Greenish Blue [06:45]
09. Monsoon Malabar [06:18]
10. Feasting With Panthers [09:07]
11. Amina [07:23]
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The second installment in Bombay Dub
OrchestraÆs ongoing East-West fusion project,
titled 3 Cities, takes the listener on a
rollicking ride down the Ganges from the
Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal with sounds
both new and old. The duo says that they
ôdidnÆt set out to do anything that different
on this album. We just continued doing
exactly what we wanted to do without any
borders, boundaries or restraints. We of
course wanted to increase our palette of
sounds further than the first one û but we
had to let it grow organically so nothing was
forced or contrived. We did however use a lot
more acoustic instruments.ö
Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is where the
majority of 3 Cities was created and is
central to the Bombay Dub Orchestra project.
The people, the music, the colors, the
buildings, the smells, the food and life in
the heart of the city has been integral to
the inspiration behind their work.
Both Hughes and Mackay have been traveling to
Mumbai since the early 90Æs and first worked
together there in 1998. Mackay elaborates,
ôWe have a great rapport with the musicians
and technicians in Mumbai and have built
strong relationships over the last ten
years.ö Mackay adds, ôThe soloists are
amazing and there is a great selection of
musicians, some veterans of the industry who
have played on the biggest film scores and
records in the last thirty years. Then there
are the new breed of young players who are
coming up and have great enthusiasm for music
and have learned so much from the masters
before them. 3 Cities proudly features both.ö
The second city represented on the album is
Chennai (Madras). Although both Hughes and
Mackay had visited Chennai before, this was
their first time recording there. They
immediately made a real connection with the
musicians, recording at the studios of
revered composer and musician A R Rahman.
This is where they worked with some of the
most dedicated string players and soloists.
As Hughes states, ôThe string players that we
recorded with worked extraordinary hours -
something you would never find in the UK or
US. They were recording from 7am until 2pm
with AR Rahman and then we would record with
them from 3pm until 9pm. By this time as you
can imagine they were pretty tired but it
never showed. The players were amazing,
especially considering we had never worked
with the majority of them before.ö
After extensive recording sessions in Mumbai
and Chennai, Bombay Dub Orchestra returned
back home from their apartment in
Lokhandwala, Mumbai to the United Kingdom.
They recorded in various parts of the UK
including London where the vocals of singers
Kartik and Meneka were recorded as well as
some sitar and percussion.
The biggest UK sessions were recorded at
Rockfield Studios, located on a farm near the
hamlet of Rockfield on the Welsh border. A
legendary music studio set up in the 1960s,
the facility has the vibe left from five
decades of recording with the likes of Queen,
Black Sabbath, Simple Minds, Echo and the
Bunnymen, Robert Plant and Oasis. Here BDO
recorded live drums, percussion, tablas,
Rhodes and piano. The Bosendorfer Grand piano
that was used on 3 Cities is the very same
one that Freddie Mercury recorded æBohemian
RhapsodyÆ on.
3 Cities opens with ôEgypt by Air,ö an
imaginary journey from India to Egypt
inspired by a 1930Æs travel poster - an
intriguing track layered with sweeping
strings and built on a heavy dance beat fused
with ouds, darabukas and the groupÆs
synthesizer sequences. ôJourneyö is based on
two Indian Raags (scales) featuring singer
Kartik, along with Ashwin SrinivasanÆs
bansuri (flute), Sunil DasÆ beautiful sitar,
a santoor (a kind of hammered dulcimer)
played by Ulhas Bapat, and a slow but heavy
trip-hop groove. ôStrange Constellations,ö an
immediate electro-pop melody driven æLove
SongÆ (according to Hughes - the only love
song he has ever written) hits home from the
first beat with an overwhelmingly beautiful
and simplistic melody.
ôJunoon,ö featuring the vocals of Meneka
could almost hail from a classic Indian film
with its mix of Hindi/Urdu lyrics. Virtuosic
bansuri, with cinematic strings mix with
squelchy synths on a slow Indian percussion
led beat. ôSpiral ( 3 Cities)ö is a collage
of the sub-continent with its south Indian
percussion, North Indian Vocals again by
Kartik, dilruba and tarshennai by Chennai
based musician Saroja, tough beats and
electrically charged strings! ôMap of Dusk,ö
is dreamy and atmospheric with ambient guitar
and flute atop live drums and percussion.
Shimmering strings rise from the ambience
creating another exotic cinematic landscape.
ôFallenö features the vocals of Mumbai based
singer Hamsika Iyer. Her haunting voice is
supported by Abdullah MufaÆs brushed drums
and MackayÆs jazz-inflected piano. Mysterious
bansuri lines weave amongst the vocals and
evocative strings. ôGreenish Blueö is a vast
and dynamic cinematic piece, which, according
to Mackay ôis a gentle nod to the soundtrack
of the classic Indian film æRam Teri Ganga
MeliÆ by blind composer Ravindra Jain.ö
ôMonsoon MalabarÆsö multiple male vocals
build up layers of harmony leading into a
strong electro-dance groove with washes of
live Indian percussion. The result is one of
the albumÆs most dynamic and energetic
tracks.
ôFeasting with Panthersö features bass
clarinet clusters, dark melodies, chilled
beats and restrained strings and is followed
by album closer ôAmina,ö with an episodic
arrangement that starts out quiet and
contemplative, then gradually turns
beat-heavy (courtesy of young UK based
drummer Will Brown).
ôWe now have a core group of musicians who we
have recorded with over the last two albums
and who have played live with us over the
last two years,ö say Mackay. ôWeÆve been
blessed to be working with some of the finest
musicians in the world.ö
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