{"id":3057,"date":"2011-11-04T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2011-11-04T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:03:35","slug":"cd-rudresh-mahanthappa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/11\/cd-rudresh-mahanthappa\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Rudresh Mahanthappa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rudresh Mahanthappa<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Samdhi-Rudresh-Mahanthappa\/dp\/B005BEHB5M?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1320365378&#038;sr=1-1&#038;_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Samdhi<\/em><\/a> (ACT) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Rudresh-M-Samdhi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Rudresh-M-Samdhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rudresh M Samdhi\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Rudresh-M-Samdhi.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Rudresh-M-Samdhi-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Rudresh-M-Samdhi-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>This is the latest chapter in the alto saxophonist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accommodation of his Indian cultural heritage to his American jazz ethos. Or is it the other way around? He combines electric guitar, electric bass, drums, the astonishing South Indian percussionist Anantha Krishnan and discreet post-production manipulation. Guitarist Dave Gilmore is a stimulating foil. The demonic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Killer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the electronically multiplied saxophones of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Parakram #2\u00e2\u20ac\u009d may require conventionally attuned ears to adjust to the Mahanthappa ethos. Relaxed pieces like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ahhh,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For My Lady\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rune\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bring contemplative satisfactions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudresh Mahanthappa, Samdhi (ACT) This is the latest chapter in the alto saxophonist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accommodation of his Indian cultural heritage to his American jazz ethos. Or is it the other way around? He combines electric guitar, electric bass, drums, the astonishing South Indian percussionist Anantha Krishnan and discreet post-production manipulation. Guitarist Dave Gilmore is a stimulating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}