I live & work between New Mexico and California, aim to bring beauty and light through the moving image in lounge settings & spirit-warrior documentaries, indigenous issues as well as art videos for the amazing bands (esp. hiphop), visual artists and contemporary dancers I am blessed to work with ...
Shankar looks beatific, sitting on stage before his sitar, a 17-stringed instrument made of two gourds, teak wood, and silver-toned frets. We can almost envision the sultan's courts in Delhi filling with melodious strains. But once Shankar begins to play, his asymmetrical rhythms delicately splinteri
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered to be the greatest qawwal of his generation. Qawwali, the Sufi music of India and Pakistan, translates literally as "utterance," and it is an ecstatic, spiritual poetry married to music. The music serves to express mystical love and the longing for a union with the