In the next room, Electric Sitar Meditations by Pete Kennedy is playing. The drone of his sitar is calming, but at the same time it triggers a heightened sensual awareness. Kennedy's solid reputation as a folk-rock sideman was cemented long ago through his work with Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate Wolf and most notably his wife and duo partner Maura Kennedy. He's also released a string of guitar-centric albums in the roots/Americana genre. Now he takes a bold step in a new direction, offering a set of jazz classics from the late fifties "modal" period associated with Miles and Coltrane, balanced against a virtual "side two" of his own improvisations on classical themes by Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky and Bartok. The electric sitar, played solo throughout without overdubs or edits, is an evocative, surprisingly sonorous instrument with which Kennedy quietly reinvents the instrument as an "ancient but fresh" sound.

Tracklist:

Naima
Flamenco Sketches
Aranjuez, Mon Amour
In A Silent Way
My Foolish Heart
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Sarabande In B Minor
Fugue In C Major
Theme From Chaconne In D Minor 1
The Girl With The Flaxen Hair 1
Three Birds Of Paradise 1
Sarabande In A Minor 1
Hungarian Folk Song 1
Adoration Of The Earth 1
Visionary Landscape

UPC: 700261485881
Label: The Kennedys Llc
Release Date: 3.26.21
Format: CD

Pete Kennedy - Electric Sitar Meditations (CD)