Jack Lee, a long time resident/musician/producer in New York music scene, met with Lewis Pragasam, leader of the ‘Asiabeat’ band, last year in Malaysia for an impromptu recording sessions, developed an immediate rapport and found themselves much excited to experiment the musical journey with this new concept. Having produced a new recordings by the great Jazz Pianist, Bob James’ upcoming album ‘Angels of Shanghai’ in China this January 2005, Jack decided to form this new concept band with Lewis, and further develop this ideas with the debut recordings. Coincidentally, the EBS television in Korea liked the idea of this group, and invited to perform for their EBS space TV program, for the world premiere show.
…on this Debut recording (scheduled to release in late summer by Universal Music Group worldwide) , Jack invited Academy award winning Pianist Dave Grusin, and a grammy winning drummer, Harvey Mason to record as well as another good friend , very talented multi instrumentalist, Mr.Norihito Sumitomo, a master of EWI (electric wind instrument) from Japan, and a great acoustic guitarist/composer from Brazil, Toninho Horta, and another great pianist from New York, Mr.Charles Blenzig (currently musical director of the famous Michael Franks band). Another special addition to the band is Ms.Suphala, a beautiful and dynamic Indian Tabla percussionist from New York, who has been sought by prominent artists, leading to collaborations with the likes of Sean Lennon, Norah Jones, and Vernon Reid (living colour)
The title track, Asianergy, (composed by Jack Lee) sets the mood and the tone of this recording and the concept of the band. Exhilarating rhythmic Grooves with many percussive colors, and the contrapuntal flowing melodies with exciting solos with wide spectrum of new sounds, provide the listener, the sheer joy of music in the groove.
The compositions like ‘Episode from a journey’, ‘Exotica’ and ‘Scenes from Recollections’ showcases true fusion of multi-cultural influences from Latin music with asian sensibilities.
This exciting new project of ‘Asianergy’ will continue to explore and expand its possibilities with more special guests planned to join to complete the album later this summer. Stay tuned, as Asianergy tries to bring peace and smiles by sharing the new music with you.! ....
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