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Rising by Daniel Garbin

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Album Title: Rising
Toufette Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 49:55:46

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About the Album

Excerpt from liner notes penned by Freddie Bryant: Rising brings the Indian sitar to the jazz quintet in substitution for Daniel’s guitar. He fell in love with the sitar after a trip to India in 2006 for an academic conference and immediately immersed himself in the sound and style becoming a student of Mita Nag, a 6th generation sitar master of Indian Classical Music from Kolkata. For a guitarist to feature the sitar on the title track shows that he is following his heart. It gives us insight into his development as a musician and is a testament to the organic nature of his approach to music. The song’s inspiration came in part through an exercise he was playing on the sitar. The modal melody floats over a rumba-like rhythm. Since rhythm plays such a major role in Indian music, Garbin felt that the time signature of 4/4 in the main melody should alternate with the 3/4 time signature (interlaid with a fast 6/8) during the interlude. But much like in Indian classical music, the melody dominates over the time signatures, with the latter being conspicuous only to the careful listener. The discerning listener will hear Garbin superimpose the fast 5/8 rhythm over the 4/4 section during his solo. The band is featured with a soaring and impassioned solo by saxophonist Scott Litroff , the impeccable piano playing of Camila Cortina whose solo has multiple rhythmic and harmonic intricacies, and the fretless electric bass of Eddy Khaimovich who at various times in the track plays some subwoofer-low bass notes. The ensemble is grounded with the stellar rhythm and grooves of drummer Brian Woodruff.

Tracks

Rising; Simi's Bossa; Rolling Hills; Anomisericordo; DSD; Almost Forgotten- Like Satch; Into the Sunset

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Date featured

May 24, 2025

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