East meets West as legendary double-violinist Shankar teams up with former Duran Duran member Warren Cuccurullo on guitar for this beautiful set.

7 MP3 Songs
WORLD: Middle East Contemporary, CLASSICAL: Contemporary



Details:
Guitarist Warren Cuccurullo says about The Blue:

"This music was improvised live to a 2-track digital at my home studio in London. The spontaneous creations captured on this CD are what I consider to be music in its purest form - composition from literally, out of the blue." He described it to me in 1998 as very "stream-of-consciousness" playing between himself and Shankar.

The press release describes it as "atmospheric music with guitar, violins and vocals." Violinist Shankar started with John McLaughlin in a band called Shakti. He was a popular Indian classical musician who played traditional Indian classical music, and with McLaughlin, he was introduced into the fusion world and established his name playing violin.

Note: even though technically this experimental CD is instrumental (no lyrics/singing), each track features Shankar on 'voice as instrument' providing the 'melodic line' for each track. Instrumental Guitar (Electric/New Age), total running time, 74:05

ALL EDITIONS SOLD THROUGH CD BABY ARE COPIES SIGNED BY WARREN!!!

Although not a household name (except in guitar circles), Warren Cuccurullo, a recipient of the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, has made undeniable contributions to the worlds of pop and rock music through his work in Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage-era band (where he gets a shout-out in "Catholic Girls"), 80's new wave band Missing Persons, and the revamped 90's version of Duran Duran where he helped pen such classics as "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone".

In addition to those contributions, Warren Cuccurullo is quite an accomplished guitarist (which was a serious prerequisite to getting into Zappa's band!). Throughout the last decade, Warren has released several solo albums featuring his guitar playing that have sadly fallen out-of-print...until now.