Trilok Gurtu - The Beat Of Love (2001)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Trilok Gurtu Title The Beat Of Love Length 39:39 Discs: 1 Tracks: 9 Format HQ 192+ kbps Packaging Jewel Case Label Blue Thumb Cat. Number 549745 Style World Fusion Rating N/A Recorded 2001

Musicians	Credits
Trilok Gurtu tabla, percussion Ravi Chary sitar Sabine Kabongo vocals Amit Heri guitar Hilaire Penda bass	Producer Wally Badarou Mixing Matt Howe

Track list

01 A Friend 04:21 02 Dance With My Lover 04:51 03 Have We Lost Our Dream 04:44 04 Ingoma 03:26 05 Jhulelal 04:55 06 Maya 05:10 07 Ola Bombay 03:51 08 Passing By 03:20 09 Peace of the Five Elements 05:01

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AMG Review by Alex Henderson (4): Trilok Gurtu has recorded his share of instrumental jazz and worked with jazz heavyweights like Joe Zawinul and Pat Metheny, but you won't find any jazz whatsoever on The Beat of Love. For myopic, narrow-minded jazz snobs who believe that jazz is the only form of music that has a right to exist, the CD's lack of jazz is a problem. But for broad-minded world music enthusiasts, The Beat of Love is a fine addition to Gurtu's catalog. Produced by West Africa native Wally Badarou, this album is meant to fuse modern Indian pop with the rhythms of black Africa (as opposed to Arabic North Africa). And the two prove to be quite compatible; on The Beat of Love, African elements sound perfectly logical alongside Indian rhythms and instruments. The voices of well-known African singers like Salif Keita and Angelique Kidjo sound right at home with Indian instruments such as the sitar and tabla drums. But The Beat of Love isn't just about Indian and African elements — Gurtu combines those things with American funk and electronica. Of course, the modern pop sounds of India and black Africa are heavily influenced by Western pop and funk, and Gurtu is well aware of that. So if The Beat of Love is a musical tour of India and black Africa, there are also stops in the United States and Europe. And, in fact, the CD was produced in four different countries — not only India and South Africa, but also the U.S. and England. With a lot of help from Badarou, Gurtu sees to it that The Beat of Love is an unpredictable but consistently appealing celebration of multiculturalism. Special Guests: Angelique Kidjo: vocals (2) Salif Keita: vocals (3) Roop Kumar: vocals (4,8) Wasis Diop: vocals (5,9) Jabu Khanyile: vocals (7) Sonaali Kumar Rathod: vocals (7) Nandini Sirkar: vocals (9) Mryudula Desai & Bharati Desai: vocals (10) Wally Badarou: keyboard, programming James Hallawell: keyboard, programming (9) Nicolas Fiszman: guitar, bass (2,4,6,8,9,10) Aziz & Habib: dholak (1,4,8,10) Sanjay Sen: tabla (1,4,8,10) Sunil Das: taar shennai, dilruba (3,6,7,11) Farouk: rebab (4,6,8,10) The Bombay Strings (2,3,8)