Warren Cuccurullo "The Blue"

Warren Cuccurullo "The Blue"

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Warren Cuccurullo
The Blue
The Story
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.
The Music
06:26 The Beginning Instrumental
07:11 The Guide Instrumental
10:25 The Unknown Instrumental
15:31 The Trip Instrumental
08:35 The Experiment Instrumental
13:04 The Lesson Instrumental
12:50 The End Instrumental
The Artists
Warren Cuccurullo Electric Guitar Atmospheres, Rhythm Programming (Track 5), Production, Engineering, Mixing
Shankar Double Neck Violin, Voice, Tambourine
Henk Kooistra Mastering
Andrew Day Artwork, Photography, Design
Eddie Wilner Reissue Production
Jimmy Starr Remastering
Created and performed live to 2 track digital by Warren Cuccurullo and Shankar 2/92.

Mastered at 9 West Mastering, Marlboro, MA.