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LISA SANGITA MOSKOW - Reviews
Sojourn | These Still Waters 
 Yearning | Songs for Sarod
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Sojourn (CD only) 

Sojourn showcases the world jazz compositions of Lisa Moskow on sarod, Hermann Buhler on clarinet and flute, and Geoffrey Gordon on tabla (drums from India). 

 
 
Sojourn is an elegant union of ecstatic tribal sensibility and classic jazz lyricism.  "This music flows with a magical unity and creates expansive moments of pleasure and charm...they preserve the dignity of their musical sources while creating worlds that never existed until now."  Derk Richardson of the San Francisco Bay Guardian  

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These Still Waters: Music for Reflection (CD and cassette) 

These Still Waters combines the Japanese shakuhachi and hichiriki (flute and oboe) of Genji Ito with Moskow's sarod. 

 
This blending of Indian and Japanese tonalities "expresses an idealized, artistic, rarely experienced state of nature with uncommon precision and quiet beauty...this is real music, not soporific pabulum."  Jonathan E.: "One World Beat," BAM Magazine  

"The instruments mingle and dissolve with delicate sensitivity."  LLoyd Barde of Backroads  
  

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Yearning  (CD and cassette) Robert Rich and Lisa Moskow on the Hearts of Space/ Fathom label 
 

"I was struck by the possibility of a spatially enhanced sound-designed album of alap.  (Alap is the beginning, non-metered section of a raga in classical Indian music.)...I was looking for a complete aural womb that would go on  
forever and ever."   Robert Rich 

"...the fruit of two virtuosos...an epic meditation...the soul of the music takes flight."  Korova Multimedia Online Review 

"A collaboration that works...at times relaxed, at times intense and always beautiful."  Audion  

"...the two musicians have achieved a perfect alchemy...and an uncompromising openmindedness."  Revue Corrigee 

"...one hell of an audiophile trance."  Absolute Sound 

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Songs for Sarod (cassette only)  
A collection of two-part pieces for sarod, Songs for Sarod showcases Lisa Sangita Moskow's unique compositional pursuits.
 
"Moskow plays very well indeed, coaxing out sounds that are bright , ringing, droning, brittle or soft-edged (and sometimes all at once), all in the service of fascinating modal and harmonic ideas.  Her songs combine Eastern and Western sensibilities in a modest and beguiling manner."   San Francisco Bay Guardian  
"It is destined to be a classic."   India Currents   
 
            For further information, contact: 
             
              Casting Spells Music Company  
              2126 5th Avenue 
              San Rafael, CA 94901 
              (415)457-4754 (phone and fax)
 
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