Music: Journey – Ali Akbar Khan

Journey is a beautiful album. Wonderful melodies carry each song. The instrument is a sarod and Mr. Khan is one of the masters of that fretless instrument. I attended a concert by Mr. Khan in Santa Fe around 1991 and met him afterwards. There was talk of recording some music together, but my schedule was crazy at that time and it never worked out.

A few years ago I met another great sarod master from India and was invited to come to India to record some music together. The problem is that while my schedule is not as crazy as it was in the early nineties, I usually rather stay in my cave and work by myself. There is so much swirling around in my head that I want to express – over time the music in my head becomes more, not less…