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. |