Ritual of Carousel

Samsara Sound System | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Baboon Records
• ASIN: B00009B8G4
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,318 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Olive Pyramids

2. Elephant and Flea

3. Scarlet Memories

4. Zarathustra

5. Safron Dreams

6. Zot

7. Serpent Waves

8. I Who Am Thy

9. Chai Massala

10. Sho-Ka

11. Gatha

12. Dhin, Tha

Customer Reviews

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dudworldelectrohop, June 18, 2003

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yajdubuddah "yajarod" (cheboygan,michigan usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ritual of Carousel (Audio CD)

thats what the makers of samsara sound system concider their latest projekct. Featuring production from alan kushan, professor shehab,fumio toshiro. With three mixes from electronic magician eraldo bernocchi (simm-ashes-sigillum s-equations of eternity-veve,chargeddd ex.....tracks 1,3,11also featuring piki chappell on cello and scientific exploration tracks 1,2,3,5,7,19,11 saam schlaminger percussion 2,4 dub gabriel samples track4 mee violin track 12.
dont just pass this off as an electronic or techno album with a world feel, no theirs something different, every song has the lusciousness of a real band that actually listens and can flow all over and constantelly challenge new rythems not just in the album but to everysong piece by pierce. almost every song features Alan Kushan on the indian santuri box (like dulcimer), and fumio playing i thing all bass. Electric and acoustic guitar,tablas, vocals,flutes, and electronic beats fill the sound pool. Im framilliar with shehab and im sure he and eraldo bernocchi are responsible for some of the beats, some are straight electro some have a sampledtribal drum to make the actual kit, and some are electro samples. Maybe those other sounds are some of shehabs samples from his taptop. i hear faint acordian harmonium to complete the persian egyptian feel. But to sum up this record when they say world music they mean it, features every style of music around, all over the world, styles mixed sometimes up beat and down beat dub style, hypnotic with lots of persian egyptian, african, eastern feel. Features beated songs and instrumental with ambient songes. kinda sounds like tabla beat science but more like santuri beat science. a quote from the album linner notes
"ancient persian melodies fuse with pulsing rhythms of brooklyn and japan.Musical maps emerge from the great void.Vedic chants guide us to the shore.Tears are shed and laughter fills the air. a new beginning is apon us-rejoice!
fans of bill laswell, jah wobble, cap. kowotchi, eraldo bernocchi,Papa Newguinea translations, nagial site, sacred system,spectre, the eye, temple of sound, adrein sherwood,transonic,state of bengal, transglobal underground,asian groves, new school dub headers in general,qaballah steppers,talvin singh, let the future soak into us so we can breath new life. the future is hear are you listening?

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, June 18, 2009

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Grunt Hog (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ritual of Carousel (Audio CD)

I've amassed a fair collection of this type of music now, and this album is definitely a standout in its genre.

All too often the ethno-electronic musician will simply noodle around on a set of Middle Eastern & Indian instruments until he has enough samples to drop into his formulaic dubby-chillout tracks and voila! Yet another unexceptional ethnoambient album is born. (Are you listening, Six Degrees Records? Please stop!!)

This album by Samsara Sound System is a different beast entirely. It sounds as if these guys actually took the time to familiarize themselves with their instruments, and wrote some excellent tracks to showcase their talent. Rather than samples carelessly dropped into conventional electronic beats, the exotic instrumentation here sounds like integral elements of the music, seamlessly incorporated into the song structures. And it's damn punchy stuff! The mixing, basslines, and dubbed-out trance-inducing electronic elements all come together brilliantly. This disc exudes the sort of freshness and authenticity that similar artists reach for but frequently miss.

That said, their follow-up disc (Tales of the Red Dawn) was a definite step down in quality, and seems to have been produced by an almost entirely different stable of musicians operating under the same name. Approach that one with caution, but snap up "Ritual of Carousel" on sight!