In Light of India, by Alec Cooper

In Light of India

by Alec Cooper

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1.	Morning by the Ganges 05:32	info	buy track
2.	Charu 03:48	info	buy track
3.	Jupiter - Live at Celtic Connections 07:53	info	buy track
4.	John Henry 05:23	info	buy track
5.	Across the Universe 06:33	info	buy track
6.	Ubik 08:02	info	buy track
7.	Everything Flows, Nothing Lasts 03:08	lyrics	buy track
It is upon us. Every messiah, every religious ontology, every manager of every booth at this exhibit, is reflecting a distorted scintilla of the spiritual reality of the transcendental object at the end of time. Every one of us is a particularized and distorted image of this transcendental object. Into which we are being dissolved. Into which global culture is being dissolved, so...well, so what?

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In Light of India is the result of nearly 10 years of rigorous sitar study under the guidance of my guru Debashish Sanyal. It is also the product of many great musical friendships I have had the pleasure of developing over these same years. Every song in this album is based on a collaborative process with other musicians, many of whom came from non-Indian musical traditions as distinct as bluegrass, electronic/ambience and Ugandan thumb piano. In making this album, I invited my friends to reinterpret their own music in light of the Indian music that I play while at the same time rethinking my own playing in order to find common points of musical connection. The outcome is a musical kaleidoscope in which musical genres are combined, reflected and refracted in new and unexpected ways, while remaining true to what I understand as the essence of North Indian classical music.

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released July 29, 2021

Mixing and mastering by Alastair Mackie

Album artwork by Penny Allen

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Alec Cooper Edinburgh, UK

I am a sitar player, teacher, composer and researcher originally from Argentina but currently living in Edinburgh.

I have been studying Indian sitar and singing (Dhrupad) with gurus Debashish Sanyal and Ashish Jaiswal from Varanasi since 2012.
I currently perform across the Northern UK and co-direct ‘theSitarProject’, a community group promoting Indian music in Scotland. ... more

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