We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Namaskar

by Sameer Gupta

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9.99 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited stock of 'CD's of NAMASKAR - ready to clear out my inventory!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Namaskar via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    3 remaining

      $15 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 23 Sameer Gupta releases available on Bandcamp and save 10%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Jupiter Vol 3, Jupiter Vol 2, Jupiter Vol 1, 01-04 FORMLESS | COMPLETE, 04 TRUTH BEAUTY | FORMLESS, 01 BRIGHT RIVER | FORMLESS, 03 LOVE IN THE TIME OF SORROW | FORMLESS, The Supplicants + Prince Lasha, and 15 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $197.02 USD or more (10% OFF)

     

1.
2.
Salaam 06:07
3.
4.
Jangle 05:21
5.
Walk With Me 05:58
6.
7.
Attachment 07:24
8.
9.
10.

about

Namaskar, a Sanskrit salutation expressing reverence and respect, is the name of the debut solo recording of gifted drummer and tabla player Sameer Gupta. A member of Marc Cary’s Focus Trio, Gupta has studied with tabla masters Zakir Hussain and Anindo Chatterjee (who appears on the album), and collaborated with Western jazz musicians and Indian artists. The album presents a combination of Indian ragas and thumris (traditional folk songs), originals penned by Gupta and Cary, and a Miles Davis standard.

Gupta begins with “Aaye Na Balam,” reworking a thumri composed by Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the historic poetry portrays the pain and yearning of a lover in waiting. Cary’s opening resonating chord establishes the somberness of the composition, and the intricacies of Misra’s sārangī emulate the human voice, expressing a range of emotional hues, predominantly a sense of longing. Three Gupta originals are inspired by the Golden Era of Bollywood, Cary infusing the tunes with a hypnotic, almost psychedelic quality through a textured layering of electric sound.

Cary propels us into the here and now of jazz with his relentlessly driving, haunting “Walk With Me.” Gupta’s arrangement of the Miles Davis classic “Blue in Green,” featuring Chatterjee on tabla and Gupta on drums, is based on a seven-beat chhand cycle. It’s the concluding statement in his imaginative vision of Indian-American musical amalgamation.

credits

released November 1, 2010

Sameer Gupta (drumset, tabla)
Marc Cary (piano, efx, keyboards)
David Ewell (bass)
Ramesh Misra (sārangī),
Srinivas Reddy (sitar),
Prasant Radhakrishnan (Carnatic sax)
David Boyce (horns, electronics)
Charith Premawardanan (viola).

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Sameer Gupta New York, New York

Sameer Gupta is known as one of the few percussionists simultaneously representing the traditions of American jazz on drum set and Indian classical music on tabla. By combining traditional and modern improvisational styles drawing from his Indian heritage and American roots, Gupta has already established himself as an original musical voice in jazz, world, and fusion music. ... more

contact / help

Contact Sameer Gupta

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Sameer Gupta recommends:

If you like Sameer Gupta, you may also like: