Fool... Bazantar/Sitar

Erik Harris, Principal Bassist for the St. Louis Symphony
"The sound created on the Bazantar is like nothing ever heard before . . . . Every once in a while someone comes along and blows the doors off what is being done, and that is what Mark has done with the Bazantar."

Product Description
Virtuoso musician, inventor, and visionary, Mark Deutsch releases an extraordinary new CD that debuts his epic composition, Fool, and features his revolutionary new instrument, the Bazantar, for which he has received a U.S. patent.

The Bazantar is a 38-stringed instrument, possessing 29 sympathetic, 4 drone, and 5 melody strings. Its engineering concept radically advances preexisting "sympathetic instrument" configurations. Robert Wilucki, a luthier who worked on the instrument, remarks, "It is genius what Mark has done with his invention--totally unique." The Bazantar's sound is multilayered and extraordinarily resonant. These characteristics, combined with Deutsch's unique style and prodigious technique, create the perception of several instruments being played simultaneously.

Fool..., the first recording to showcase the Bazantar, also employs the sitar and various percussion instruments. As a composer, Mark Deutsch has integrated many diverse elements into this work. He weaves Indian music's sublime melodic contouring with the panoramic architecture of classical music, universal mathematical principles with a jazz musician's commitment to spontaneous creation, and avant-garde's visceral convulsions with folk tradition's graceful simplicity to create a musical gestalt that defies simplistic categorization.

The Bazantar and sitar tracks are live solo performances. There is no overdubbing, looping, or other studio effects on these tracks. Rarely attempted in today's environment of digital manipulation, this method of recording requires substantial skill by both engineer and musician. The result is a work that reveals the creative process with a vitality remarkable in character.

Fool... Bazantar/Sitar

Fool... Bazantar/Sitar,Mark Deutsch,Artist One-Stop,Int'l & World Music,Original compositions from Mark Deutsch performed on the sitar and his ground-breaking instrument the Bazantar. These breathtaking musical explorations invoke the ancient traditions of trance ritual and are profound expressions of the sublime.,Pop

Average customer rating: Hybrid Vigor Transcendant Visionary Music: beyond the beyond Trance inducing, hallucinogenic!

Fool... Bazantar/Sitar Mark Deutsch Manufacturer: Artist One-Stop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000023MC9 Release Date: 1999-05-10

Tracks:

1. Prelude - Iacta Alea Est, Orchid's Womb
2. First Movement - The Painted Bird
3. Second Movement - Persival
4. Third Movement - The Sword of Damocles
5. Fourth Movement - Kundalini Rising
6. Fifth Movement - Avodah
7. Postlude - Chrysanthemums & Orchids
8. Postlude - Lunatic Fringe

Album Description

Virtuoso musician, inventor, and visionary, Mark Deutsch releases an extraordinary new CD that debuts his epic composition, Fool, and features his revolutionary new instrument, the Bazantar, for which he has received a U.S. patent.

The Bazantar is a 38-stringed instrument, possessing 29 sympathetic, 4 drone, and 5 melody strings. Its engineering concept radically advances preexisting "sympathetic instrument" configurations. Robert Wilucki, a luthier who worked on the instrument, remarks, "It is genius what Mark has done with his invention--totally unique." The Bazantar's sound is multilayered and extraordinarily resonant. These characteristics, combined with Deutsch's unique style and prodigious technique, create the perception of several instruments being played simultaneously.

Fool..., the first recording to showcase the Bazantar, also employs the sitar and various percussion instruments. As a composer, Mark Deutsch has integrated many diverse elements into this work. He weaves Indian music's sublime melodic contouring with the panoramic architecture of classical music, universal mathematical principles with a jazz musician's commitment to spontaneous creation, and avant-garde's visceral convulsions with folk tradition's graceful simplicity to create a musical gestalt that defies simplistic categorization.

The Bazantar and sitar tracks are live solo performances. There is no overdubbing, looping, or other studio effects on these tracks. Rarely attempted in today's environment of digital manipulation, this method of recording requires substantial skill by both engineer and musician. The result is a work that reveals the creative process with a vitality remarkable in character.

Customer Reviews:

Hybrid Vigor.......2002-03-30

I am fresh from a concert presentation of gryphon-like beast the bazantar. The versatility of this instrument, in Mr. Deutch's most able hands, is quite remarkable. This recording is superb in its ability to place one inside the music. From this recording, from the concert, one gets a sense of vast possibilities and expectations for this instrument.

Fool is a musical exploration of a life as a spiritual path, one version at any rate, a rather saturnine version. I look forward to Mr. Deutsch putting out further recordings so he can expand the mystical vision with some of the irreverence of which he is also capable. Mysticism demands deconstruction to transcend itself. Fool is also a lesson in musicality. Part of the joy of this music is that it feels both unique and connected. We love to place things in categories (we cannot not do this in fact) and while I sit with this I have both the Baudelairean sense of plunging into the abyss of the new yet resonance with and anchoring to many traditions and expressions. As I am writing this I notice the second movement is playing, titled Persival. It includes a golden-ratioed figure-eight-like symbol. Interesting conjunction. Pesrival means "through the middle" or living in the points of conjunction, Whitman's "both in and out of the game. The bazantar is itself a point of intersection.

Transcendant Visionary Music: beyond the beyond.......2000-01-07

This music is unique and certainly difficult to describe with words. But I'll give it a go: With his Bazantar, Mark masterfully creates sound and timbre that entwine the exquisite aural resonance with cryptic mystical conjurings, beckoning the mind to relax and open and explore a transcendant tapestry of emotive texture and visionary trance.

Trance inducing, hallucinogenic!.......1999-10-25

By the 4th movement I found myself far removed from my sense of self in the room. The space around me grew very large and intense. This music is very interesting and penetrating. The fact that this music is of solo performance it astounding to me!

World Music:

1. For Lack of Better Words
2. Golden Voice of Demis Roussos [Import]
3. Henri, Valentin et les autres [Import]
4. Here We Go Then You & I [Import]
5. Honor The Light
6. Id: Peace B [Import]
7. Il Coraggio E l'Amore Se l'Amore E Amore, Vol. 2 [Import]
8. Instrumental India
9. Jazz Samba Encore [Original recording remastered] [Import]
10. La Disciplina della Terra [Import]

World Music

world music

World Music

Down to Earth [Original recording remastered]

Marilyn Series

Machaut: Ay Mi! Lais et virelais

Alive [Live]

No Dip [CD-single] [Import]

Sam Cooke at the Copa [Hybrid SACD] [Live]

Moscow Registration [Import]

Never a Dull Moment [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]

Nukalyptus Surreptitious [Import]

Massenet: Manon [Box set]

Musical Monkey

Sendero del Sol

Latin Lounge [Import]

Franco Alfano: Symphonies 1 & 2

So Long So Wrong