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Amancio D'Silva: Konkan Dance

Read "Konkan Dance" reviewed by Chris May


After decades of neglect, the work of Goan-born guitarist Amancio D'Silva (1936-96) edged back towards the mic last summer with the re-release of his 1969 cross-cultural masterpiece, Integration. A pioneering blend of Indian raga, hard bop and early electric Miles, plus fainter traces of ska, rembetika, Link Wray, Ennio Morricone and more, Integration featured the recently arrived in London guitarist alongside some of Britain's most inventive jazz musicians, including saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr, as did his other ...

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Amancio D'Silva: Integration

Read "Integration" reviewed by Chris May


This is a really thrilling, wonderful and profoundly enjoyable album--a trailblazing and stirring adventure in world music and world jazz recorded long before either term was invented.

Made in '69, in London, by Indian guitarist Amancio D'Silva and four of Britain's finest jazzmen, it serves up a chili-rich dish of hard bop, Indian raga, ska, early electric Miles, a little rembetika, Link Wray and Willis Gator Jackson... and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western scores! Reissued as part of Universal's ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Konkan Dance

Vocalion
2006

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Integration

Universal Music Group
2004

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Reflections

Vocalion
1971

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Integration

Vocalion
1969

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