Ancient Future performs Ocean of Love with Irina Mikhailova & World Dancer Sapphira

This live performance of the song Ocean of Love by Matthew Montfort from Ancient Future's Planet Passion CD features singer Irina Mikhailova (born in Kazakhstan and trained in classical music in the former Soviet Union), dancer Sapphira, violinist Patti Weiss, Arabic percussionist Salah Takesh, keyboardist Doug McKeehan, and Ancient Future bandleader and scalloped fretboard guitarist Matthew Montfort.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• world
• fusion
• music
• trance
• tribal
• belly
• dance
• goa
• Arabic
• Ancient
• Future
• jazz
• Russian
• guitar
• Irina
• psy

[ancientfuture]

The studio version of this is the Free Download of the Week at Borders until 1/24/2010. That's at their web site.

[satanisback]

good music, but i dont see how this is related with goa or psy :p

[ancientfuture]

Singer Irina Mikhailova is known in those circles. I myself sometimes like a bit of the vibe of these electronic styles, but I have become morally opposed to quantizing beats as it removes the human element from timing. I'm in favor of organic alternatives that keep the human spirit in the timing of the music. Therefore, Ancient Future doesn't use drum machines or loops, and these days we don't even use click tracks during the recording process. It is all recorded off the grid, played live.

[Lehmann108]

Good stuff. Nothing worse than quantizing beats! Total robot rhythm.

[ancientfuture]

@Lehmann108

Yes! 100% Organic Loop Free Music Forever! No matrix!

[seva108]

well put together. sounds human. modern mix of genres and a few cultural atemps. sounds caucasian. singer is in pitch durring improv stuff. thats nice from a technical point.

[ancientfuture]

Thanks! Glad you think it sounds human, as people spend enough time on computers without playing music with them. The song melody is in Rag Kafi, based loosely on an African chant, and with an ornament sensibility learned from our dan bao (a one string Vietnamese instrument) player Bui Huu Nhut, over an African rhythm for Yemayah (Orisa for the ocean) but played by our Arabic percussionist Salaheddin Takesh. Singer Irina Mikhailova from Kazakhstan adds a Slavic inflection.

[Arnold93]

This is amazing!

[chunga57]

This is a beautiful song! I belly dance and I would love to choreograph a dance to this song, can you tell me how to get the album it is on? Can I order through Amazon? Thank you!

[Lehmann108]

Faisal plays pretty well ;-) so I think he'll help  all of you stay in the pocket.

[Denarow]

This is great, been listening to this music long time. Amazing. Put more of those vids..

[KatsuGuitar]

Would you guys please come somewhere around Dayton or Columbus Ohio. I'm a musician *Guitarist* of 6 years myself...and i LOVE! your music. We're lucky to have a tool like the internet to find things like this. The guitar is amazing...it accompanies everything perfect. The voice is amazing as well...the whole band. Lets jam sometime...teach me your ways haha.