Spellbound

by Trilok Gurtu

Overview

Indian-born percussionist Trilok Gurtu pays homage to avant-garde trumpeter Don Cherry with 2013's Spellbound. As a member of Cherry's band from 1976 to 1978, Gurtu experienced Cherry's cross-cultural approach to music firsthand, an approach that greatly influenced his own musical direction. Bookended by two tracks Gurtu recorded with Cherry prior to the pocket trumpeter's death in 1995, Spellbound picks up on Cherry's mix of groove-oriented sounds from Indian to Afro-Cuban music to funk, free jazz, classical, and ambient improvisation. Joining Gurtu here are a handful of trumpeters who, in their own way, evoke the adventurous spirit of Cherry's improvisation, including Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Norway's Nils Petter Molvaer, German multi-talent Matthias Schriefl, Lebanese quarter-tone trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, and Turkey's Hasan Goezetlik. Spellbound is an engaging, stylistically varied album that truly evokes the magic of Cherry's music. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	03/08/2019
Label:	Moosicus Records
UPC:	4017425120622
Rank:	186340

Tracks

1. Improvisation Live: Don Cherry & Trilok Gurtu
2. Manteca
3. Jack Johnson/Black Satin
4. Cuckoo
5. Berchidda
6. Like Popcorn
7. Haunting
8. Universal Mother
9. Spellbound
10. All Blues
11. Cosmic Roundabout/Brown Rice
12. Thank You Don Cherry

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Trilok Gurtu   Primary Artist,Tuba,Drums,Tabla,Vocals,Tambura,Keyboards,Percussion
Don Cherry   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Tulug Tirpan   Keyboards,Piano
Ibrahim Maalouf   Trumpet
Matthias Hoefs   Soloist,Trumpet,Piccolo Trumpet
Carlo Cantini   Keyboards
Matthias Schriefl   Trumpet
Hasan Goezetlik   Trumpet
Nitin Shankar   Percussion
Wolf Kerscheck   Soloist
Helene Traub   Horn (English)
Paolo Fresu   Trumpet
Ambrose Akinmusire   Soloist,Trumpet
Jakob Janeschitz-Kreigel   Cello
Jonathan Cuniado   Bass
Nils Petter Molvaer   Trumpet

Technical Credits

Nils Petter Molvaer   Group Member
Luciano Gonzales   Composer
Brian Risner   Engineer
Ibrahim Maalouf   Group Member
Matthias Hoefs   Group Member
Vincent Joinville   Engineer
Graham Lawson   Associate Executive Producer
Carlo Cantini   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Executive Producer
Matthias Schriefl   Group Member
Marko Schneider   Mastering
Nico Raschke   Engineer
Hasan Goezetlik   Group Member
Rene Tuerschmann   Engineer
Wolf Kerscheck   Arranger,Composer
Christine Engel   Cover Design
David Negelen   Cover Design
Miles Davis   Composer
Paolo Fresu   Effects,Group Member
Don Cherry   Composer
Tulug Tirpan   Arranger
Helge Hasselberg   Bass Engineer,Vocal Engineer,Percussion Engineer
Taner Karal   Engineer
Trilok Gurtu   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Executive Producer
Joachim Becker   Producer,Executive Producer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
Walter Fuller   Composer
Mehmet Ergin   Keyboard Engineer