Sunset is the first single from Gabriel Akhmad Marin’s upcoming album ’Ruminate: Improvisations for Fretless Guitar and Dutar’ - is a masterclass of improvisation drawing from traditions along the Silk Road.
The album is a musical journey that crisscross the breath of Eurasia, polyphonic airs of Caucasian persuasion abruptly shift to shamanist strains from the Kazakh steppe; Persian inspired structures, peppered with Kurdish ornamentation, are equally juxtaposed with North Indian shaped refrains that naturally contour American Country and Western timbres. With additional musical “Easter Eggs” spanning from the Balkan peninsula of Central Europe to Badakhshan mountains of Central Asia, “Ruminate” presents the listener with a gamut of bold Silk Road siliques; impromptu vehicles through which to ponder the greater meaning of Old World musical fusion in our digital, post-modern society.
Sunset serves as the first single off Ruminate, highlighting the soft, subtle sound of
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