Samsara Sound System

The Samsara AUDIO SYSTEM is probably the outfits which has combined ambient electronica with world music within the 21st Century–specifically, world music as with the music of the center East, India and North Africa. The brains behind the Samsara AUDIO SYSTEM is Teacher Shehab, a Brooklyn, NY-based maker whose other globe/electronica activities possess included the Baraka Orchestra, the Qaballah Steppers, Dubadelic, Elixir and Scarab. For his mainly instrumental Samsara task, Shehab (whose genuine name can be Sassan Gari) recruited many people in 2002, including santur participant Alan Kushan and maker Fumio Toshiro. Samsara not merely reflects Shehab’s fascination with Arabic, Turkish, North African and Persian/Iranian music–it also demonstrates his fascination with traditional Indian music. And that is a logical mix of affects because Middle Eastern, North African and Indian music are area of the modal family members (music which involves what exactly is referred to as modal or scalar playing–an strategy that one may easily recognize even though he/she doesn’t understand the precise technical meaning of these conditions). With Samsara, Shehab offers favored a mixture of digital encoding and acoustic tools (that have ranged from the violin as well as the cello towards the daf). Ritual of Carousel, Samsara’s debut recording, premiered on Shehab’s 3rd party Baboon Information in 2003.