The Gift [sound recording]

Description: Harida's main instrument in this album is the santoor, accompanied by Yashu's flutes and enhanced by inventive measures of keyboards, drums and ethnic percussion. The opening track 'Love Poem' speaks straight to the heart and evokes a warm and sparkling joy inside - a feeling also dominant in the next two tracks. 'Spirits', a quiet tune played entirely with Tibetan gongs, moves the energy deep inside; followed by a ten minute track called 'Latihan', where the gentle dance between flute, santoor and tabla carries the inner sensitivity softly to the surface, to simply overflow in the last two tunes; delicate and joyful in 'Geetesh', and wild and fiery in 'Hola', Praful's soprano sax answering the santoor in blissful communication.

Tracks: Love Poem
Jaburu
Luna de Santiago
Spirits
Latihan
Geetesh
Hola

FY2000 /