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- Members:
- Burn your panpipe samples and scrub the dishes with your ambient synth pads: this is not your auntie's world music band.
Sama' Duo retains an improvisational focus, applying a deep core of both cutting-edge and ancient improvising methods within the musical traditions of India and the Middle East. The Duo reaches into the inner aspects of form and method from the established traditions, adds their previous experience as post-modern improvisors to the process and wraps it all with a rhythmically- driven, wide-ranging rock/funk ethos.
The group takes as its name a nuanced Arabic term that describes the spectrum of relationships between intense listening, sprituality, and music-making itself.
The Duo was chosen in 2006 to provide the music score for the independent film "Birth of a Pillow" by director Sharmy Pandey, from Kolkata, India. The film is a 47 minute feature with no dialogue, requiring a continuous music score that would amplify and emotionally detail the story to a very high degree.
The Duo's current instrumentation is fretless electric guitar and drum set, though they still use the sarod/tabla combination that marked their earlier phase, as well as the underutlilzed oud/gome combination. - Genre:
- world music, experimental, India
- Hometown:
- Albuquerque, N.M.
Events
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- Sama Duo at KISS Coffee
404 San Felipe, just off Mountain R...
Saturday, August 8 at 7:00pm - Sama Duo - early, all-ages sho...
Bleeding Eardrum
Monday, July 13 at 6:00pm - Sama Duo in Taos at Adobe Bar ...
Adobe Bar At Taos Inn
Wednesday, June 10 at 7:00pm - Sama Duo steps out in 'Burque...
Atomic Cantina
Monday, June 8 at 9:30pm - M. Stefan Dill - solo fretles...
Crash Mansion
Saturday, September 20 at 7:00pm - Film Shoot Part Of Gig @ Huna...
Hunab Hookah lounge
Friday, May 9 at 10:00pm
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- Site Changes, New Mailing List - And New Release Planned! 9:21pm Aug 4
- Adobe Bar rocked! 1:10am Jun 11
- new tracks and new tunes! 7:17am May 13
Cass Anawaty A friend of mine from Taos caught your show last night--she had a blast! She also said you guys worked straight through with no breaks--impressive. :-)
Sama Duo
put up two videos -- solo oud test versions of some material that will end up in duo form on the CD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eslOP_9fY
Source: www.youtube.com
This is another new piece Jefferson and I are working out with the oud, with a solo test version here. A slow , wistful melody, it's becoming one of our favorites. The Duo version of this will likely be the closing piece on the forthcoming CD.
Sama Duo Its done! CD tracking completed as of last night! Exhausted, but its all in the can. Much now to listen through and sort; a lot of takes. As my friend Subho put it once to me , " You know have to make this ocean of music into a river..."
Sama Duo rec.session last night (5): electric stuff all wrapped up. Oud /tabla mic placement checked, ready to roll on that later this week.
Sama Duo also did some solo oud videos the other night, -- i'll be posting those next week
Sama Duo recording session, day 4: bulk of electric material in the can; 2 more elec. tunes to lay down tomorrow, then we start on oud tracks
Sama Duo 3rd recording session today: some good takes in the can. Must finish by next weekend - looks possible, and with good performances, too!
Sama Duo just finished second recording date: still a bit tentative, but one of the takes of a ballad holds promise.
Sama Duo first official day of CD recording -- dialed in microphone placement, and a few initial takes. it's under way!
Sama Duo four new videos up, from last week's performance; enjoy!
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Sama Duo KISS Coffee gig was fun! nice setting, good food, and it really does have great lemonade! 1st a little a stiff as we got used to the sound, but second set rocked, i think...many thnaks to Robin, Melissa, Josh, Josh, Andrew and all the others who came out or stopped by to see it. truly grateful for the support!
Sama Duo
looking forward to a quickly booked showTONIGHT (Sat, Aug 8) in Alb's historic Old Town at:
KISS Coffee at Patio Escondido
404 San Felipe, just off Mountain Rd
Old Town
Albuquerque, NM 87104 US
we'll be there from 7 to 9...c ya there!
Time:7:00PM Saturday, August 8th
Location:404 San Felipe, just off Mountain Rd Old Town Albuquerque, NM 87104 US
Site Changes, New Mailing List - And New Release Planned! A lot of news: First, we're in the process of updating the main site at http://www.norumba.com , bringing it in line with some of the social networking and music apps we have...
