Kaya Project - Walking Through
ICR 0017 - 2 / IDC Cat# 0047
"Walking Through", KAYA PROJECT's debut CD, is a downtempo fusion of cutting-edge beats, organic electronica and diverse sounds and vocals from Hawaii, India, the Middle East and Europe. KAYA PROJECT is the latest musical incarnation from Seb Taylor, who has released as SHAKTA, DIGITALIS and is also a co-founder of ANGEL TEARS.
Self-taught on the guitar, flute and cello, at age 16 Seb heard the album " Songs From the Victorious City" , a collaboration between ANNE DUDLEY and JAZ COLEMAN (KILLING JOKE), and became fascinated with the fusion of Middle Eastern music and Western production. Since his first electronic music release in 1995, Seb has recorded under many different names in many different styles. In 1997 he signed his first record deal with Big Life/Dragonfly Records and the success of his recordings with the groups SHAKTA and DIGITALIS led to Seb performing around the world on a regular basis, which gave him the opportunity to absorb different musical cultures.
In Israel he met Momi Ochion, and together they formed ANGEL TEARS, recording a variety of musicians from the Middle East and melding these sounds into their own unique electronica. These tracks subsequently ended up on many well-regarded compilation CDs-including CLAUDE CHALLE's "Buddha Bar" series-and were heard in a number of hit TV shows, such as HBO's Sex and the City .
While on tour in Mexico , Seb met Irina Mikhailova singing with MEDICINE DRUM, and on a subsequent trip to London Irina recorded vocals at Seb's studio. The resulting track, "Labess," sung in Moroccan Arabic, became the first KAYA PROJECT song. Seb later returned the favour by remixing one of Irina's tracks Nightflower which we are grateful to include on Walking Through.
Seb has collaborated on new Kaya Project material with Johnny Kalsi (AFRO-CELTS/DHOL FOUNDATION) and has also recently finished remixing eight tracks for the BLACK ONYX, with orchestral pieces written by JAZ COLEMAN and played by the London Symphony Orchestra, a dream come true.
Seb and his twin soul Natasha who is an accomplished dj, are currently in Rajastan, travelling around the world recording musicians for new Kaya project material.
KAYA PROJECT tracks have been on the following compilations:
"Stone turns Black" on " 13th Moon" (Interchill, Canada)
"Twin Soul" on " Arabian Travels 2" (Six Degrees Records, U.S.)
"Walking Through" on " World Peace" (Stoned Asia Music , U.S)
Track Listing
- Walking Through
- Slide
- Labess
- Olelo
- Twin Soul
- Nightflower
- (Kaya Project Remix)
- Kanzaman Breaks
- Tribal Shift
- Stone Turns Back
- Only The Brave
- Resolve
- Rise Above
Various Artists - Talisman
ICR 0015 - 2 / IDC Cat# 0046
Check Out Interchill Record’s first Dub Compilation!
First out is a group from UK I haven’t heard about. They give us a very reggae influenced track. Slow dubby reggae rhythms and reggae vocals with a lot of echo effects. Relaxing and not too much annoying vocals. Track 2 sounds a bit like Ott, with a bit of mouth organ alike melodies. A very happy summer chilled dub track. A lot of you have probably heard about Neil Sparkes already. He has made the track together with a guy called Rick Mulhall. Track 3 is my favorite track on this compilation. It is actually made by Merv Pepler (Eat Static). Again he proves that he can handle a ton of different music styles. After many, many years of releasing electronic music, he is this year releasing psytrance on major trance labels as TIP.World and Solstice Music, and now he suddenly gives us a beautiful dub track on this compilation. I find this track sort of trippy, with a psychedelic vibe. It reminds me a bit of the beautiful Hallucinogen In Dub album because of the melodies etc. Way to go Merv!
After some trippy dub from Eat Static, we get a slower more instrumental track from a group from France called Jumbo Layer. Relaxing lounge dub with some female vocals, flute and guitar. Jah Wobble is producing a lot of oriental dub these days. Here we get a track he has made with a singer. Very ethnic chill with a lot of vocals. I have lost count of how many albums Suns Of Arqa have released, but I think they are up around twenty albums soon!! Here we get a new track from them. Easy listening dub with beautiful flute and sitar. Ethnic as always from these people. They have also added some weird sounds. Gargoyles is sort of the new super group on the chill out market these days. A very interesting collaboration between mainly Ott and Simon Posford, but they have also been working with Andrew (Interchill). They also released a track on the Backroom Beats 2 compilation earlier this year. This track sounds mostly like an Ott track, with very reggae dub style without the vocals, but you can here Mr Posford has added his beautiful weird sounds etc. I have actually heard Posford play this track in his dj set at the chill out stage at Samothraki Dance Festival last year!
Ott released his debut solo album on Twisted Records this spring. A talented mystical man releasing mostly very dub oriented chill. The track we get here is not on the album. A beautiful track, with some trippy melodies and the usual reggae influenced dubby Ott style. Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble make a lot of music together. They have also released music on Dragonflys side label Liquid Sound Design (LSD). Here we get a deep jazzy dub track, with trumpet, a lot of bass and organic instruments. Then we get a track from Henrik Jonsson from Sweden. This track was first released on his album Within The Office Of Eye And Ear (Spiral Trax Records spring 2002). I have to admit that I`m not a fan of his music. Very slow, sort of minimal dub. Track 11 is in my opinion one of the best tracks on this album. A track from the latest album of Adham Shaikh, Essence, released on his own label Sonicturtle Music at the end of 2002. A great album that was released as a limited edition release. Beautiful organic chill with relaxing flute. The last track on this compilation is a taste of the beautiful album East Of the River Ganges made by Youth and friends (The Kumba Mela Experiment). A nice happy finish for a high quality dub compilation. Dubby chill out music is for sure getting a good reputation these days. If you like artists like Ott, releases on Liquid Sound Design and Backroom Beats, be sure to check this out! A lot of nice dub for your summer chill this year.
Track Listing
- Manasseh Meets Equaliser Feat Knati - Temper Dub
- Neil Sparkes & The Last Tribe - Talisman (Dub Praises Mix)
- Eat Static - Caridwen
- Jumbo Layer - The Lily dub
- Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart / Molam Dub - Lam Tam Way Dub
- Suns Of Arqa - Ark Of the Arqans
- Gargoyles - Evil Do`ers
- Ott - Scilly Automatic
- Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Orion
- Stress Assassin - Time
- Adham Shaikh Sabadub (G-String Mix)
- The Kumba Mela Experiment - That Which I Could Only Sense
