Karsh Kale ist zumindest mir bekannt geworden, indem er auf den Six Degrees-Travel Series-Compilations auftauchte. 2001 wurde sein Debüt Realize veröffentlicht, ein Jahr später gab's die Remix-Fassung dazu: Redesign. Er ist Mitglied der Tabla Beat Science, arbeitete bereits mit u. a. DJ Spooky, Herbie Hancock und Bill Laswell zusammen und mittlerweile ist er wohl der Repräsentant des amerikanischen Asian Underground, in den USA verschlagwortet als Asian Massive. Im Jahr 2003 erblickte sein zweites Album Liberation das Licht der Welt, nun im Jahr 2006 sein drittes: Broken English. :-)
Homepage: www.karshkale.com
[ Distance (MCD) | Realize | Redesign | Liberation | Broken English ]
Distance, MCD
Distance, MCD, Six Degrees Records, 2001
Distance (Radio Edit)
Distance (Banco de Gaia Remix), Remix von Toby Marks a.k.a. Banco de Gaia
Distance (MIDIval PunditZ Spoon & Psyche Mix), Remix von Tapan Raj & Gaurav Raina a.k.a. MIDIval PunditZ
Distance (Mighty Junn's What's That Sound In The Garage Mix), Remix von Karsh Kale
Distance (Capt. Groove's Trinity Plaza Mix), Remix von Gaurav Raina
Realize, Album
Realize, Album, Six Degrees Records, 2001
Karsh Kale (pronounced Kursh Kah-lay), the leading U.S. figure in the Asian Massive movement, infuses the traditional sounds of ancient India with post-millenial electronic dance styles suc as trance and drum'n'bass. Blending sarangi, flutes and vocals with hypnotic electronica on Realize, his Six Degrees Travel Series debut, Kale carves his own unique niche in pan-global music.
[aus: CD-Booklet]
Empty Hands
Distance
Tour Guide
Anja
Home
Satellite
One Step Beyond
Saajana
Conception
Light Up The Love
Deepest Blue
Fabric
Longing
Gbatokai Dakinah Jr. (bass), Kirk Douglas (guitar), Yosi Fine (bass), Gigi (vocals), Steve Gorn (bansuri), Karsh Kale (tabla, drum loops, percussion loops, drum kit, keyboards, piano, drum and tabla programming, programming, low end, arpegiators and acid lines, samples, electric santoor, gongs and bells, vocals), Lalitya Munshaw (vocals), Ajay Prasanna (bansuri), Gaurav Raina (drum programming, low end, samples), Pandit Ramesh Misra (sarangi), Falguni Shah (vocals), Vidya Shah (vocals), Shahid Siddiqui (vocals, guitar), Ustad Sultan Khan (vocals, sarangi), Vishal Vaid (vocals) (in alphabetischer Reihenfolge)
Realize - Redesign Remixed, Remix-Album
Redesign - Realize Remixed, Remix-Album, Six Degrees Records, 2002
again...realize reborn - reinvented and redesigned
[Karsh Kale im CD-Booklet]
Saajana (Ming and FS Mix), Remix von Aaron Albano & Fred Sargolini a.k.a. ming and fs
Destroy The Icon (Bone Cruise Mix), Remix von Karsh Kale
One Step Beyond (DJ Spooky Datalife 2002 Mix), Remix von Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Deepest Blue (KK's Deepest Brooklyn Mix), Remix von Karsh Kale - - deep in the jeep...alternate mix -
Home (MIDIval PunditZ Higher Salvation Mix), Remix von Gaurav Raina & Tapan Raj a.k.a. MIDIval PunditZ
Distance (Banco de Gaia Remix), Remix von Toby Marks a.k.a. Banco de Gaia
Empty Hands (Bill Laswell Mix), Reconstruction & Mix-Translation von Bill Laswell
Light Up The Love (Mighty Junn Summer of XAI Mix), Remix von the Mighty Junn
Home (Navdeep's Pressure Mix), Remix von Navdeep
Empty Hands (DK Pyar Amor Mix), Remix von dk and f intl
Anja (Mother Earth Mix), Remix von Karsh Kale
Home (Mukul Acid Lullaby), Remix von Mukul
Liberation, Album, Six Degrees Records, 2003
Liberation is a story about rebirth. It is a journey set in a world of dualities. Reality and Fantasy, the tangible and the spiritual all at once. I started this journey in New York with my Band Realize, laying down the foundation for a story taht would travel through many cities before its completion... Paris, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Madras, Bali, Bangkok, Pune, Tokyo, NYC, LA nad San Francisco each became backdrops for this album to be conceived, reconceived and finally...liberated. I was fortunate to have collaborated with some of the most inspiring young artists of our day as well as working with the ultimate in special guests.
[Karsh Kale im CD-Booklet]
Liberation
Instinct
Analog Mood Swings
Milan
Break Of Dawn
Dirty Fellow
Letting Go
GK2
Cinematic Reprise
Epic
Realize, Album, Six Degrees Records, 2006
On Broken English, Karsh Kale balances his Indian heritage with rock and roll, hip-hop and atmospheric pop for his most diverse release to date. On his third studio release, Kale works with a talented cast of collaborators including MC Napolean, vocalists Trixie Reiss (Crystal Method), Dierdre (Ekova), Vishal Vaid and award winning Bollywood film composer Salim Merchant.
[aus: CD-Booklet]
I did'nt have to search for anything...It was all right there...I just had to pull away and there it as...the music unfolded like a chainletter or a game of telephone...and I was the operator...Patching people who never met through to each other...jumping between Mumbai, NYC, LA and Chicago to cast this ensemble of artists...To all speak kollektively, different versions...of the same thing. Each piece of music represents the sound that exists between the doorways of the worlds we travel through...and to communicate we speak in Broken English.
[Karsh Kale im CD-Booklet]
Manifest
Dancing At Sunset
Beautiful
New Born Star
Free Fall
Drive
Innocence And Power
Hole In The Sky
Some Things Are O.K.
Louder Than Bombs
City Lights
Rise Up