Categories * New Products * Featured * Events * Music * Crafts * Photos More Links * Merchantix Blog * About * Contact Home » Music» Canadian Product Details Glen Halls CD Groove Caravan View Larger Image Glen Halls CD Groove Caravan SKU: 20100929 Our Price: $15.99 Quantity: Add To Wishlist Add To Registry Overview Groove Caravan is a stunning album of world music fusion, full of passion, exoticism, and romance, which documents the collaboration of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - a world renowned, Grammy-Award winning Indian classical musician on the Mohan Veena (modified Indian slide guitar), with Glen Charles Halls- one of Canada’s leading and most innovative jazz pianists, a rock guitarist, and composer. This is a unique and wide ranging album that moves through contemporary, groove oriented music, and beautiful ballads, clearly routed in the traditional, devotional Indian-classical tradition, but sprinkled with touches and colors from the jazz and tonal harmonic traditions, sensitively and intelligently placed. It is a richly produced album, but at the core we hear two great musicians trading and co-creating improvised solos, with a shared understanding of higher purpose in the music. ‘World music fusion’ would be an appropriate stylistic label for the album, but it is not just the fusion of Indian-classical and jazz elements, but a wider fusion with world percussion elements of African and Latin American origin, and contemporary groove elements suggestive of urban western music. Sonically, it is a stunning recording; romantic and evocative, rich and exotic, and yet also containing moments of profound simplicity. It is a perfect record to set a romantic and yet exotic mood, but nonetheless features musicianship and musicality of the highest level. Additional audio samples may be found at http://www.deeksha.ca