The ostensible angle of Ancestors Call—re-casting previous Huun Huur Tu songs to reflect the group’s exposure to other sounds as it played indigenous Tuvan music around the world—is a bigger factor on paper than on record. The band’s native heart always feels greater than its outside influences and collaborators (from Frank Zappa to electronic musician Carmen Rizzo), like an old mountain welcoming a few new trees to its slopes. After all, this is a form of music that developed in relative isolation, like the platypus, but far more awe-inspiring. Ancestors Call isn’t defined by a ...
- 10/19/2010
- avclub.com
"It's such a hard sell," Carmen Rizzo tells me from his Los Angeles studio. "There are so many artists who are from other countries who want to do American Idol bullshit, or be the eastern Coldplay. I say: Why?" The topic of discussion is Inbar Bakal, an Israeli/Iraqi/Yemenite singer who re-rooted herself in the City of Angels to forge her way into a dance-pop career. Then she met Rizzo, whose credits include work with Paul Okenfold, Seal, Jem, and many other well-known acts. He persuaded her to make a U-turn -- her heritage, he said, would be so much more interesting. Rizzo himself had been tinkering with some incredible global music projects, including the Persian-electronica trio Niyaz, and another trio featuring a singer once going by the name of Rosey, Lal Meri. His instincts proved correct. Bakal, as Rizzo says, called his...
- 8/12/2009
- by Derek Beres
- Huffington Post
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