Heavy Traffic, based in the north Indian raga Bilaskhani Todi, is an experiment in improvisation and editing. At the end of every day in the recording studio, each guest musician improvised on this track, hearing only guide vocals, bass and drums. The resulting 64 tracks of audio were then woven together by Ed Hanley and Suba Sankaran—a week-long voyage of unexpected twists and turns.
credits
from So The Journey Goes, released January 3, 2007
autorickshaw.bandcamp.com/album/so-the-journey-goes
Winner, Grand Prize, World Music: John Lennon Songwriting Competition, 2007
2007 JUNO-nominee:
World Music Album of the Year
from
Selections,
released March 18, 2018
Suba Sankaran-voice
Rich Brown-bass
Mark McLean-drums
Ed Hanley-tabla
Debashis Sinha-dumbek
Kevin Breit-guitar
George Koller-dilruba
John Gzowski-guitar, fretless guitar, dobro
Trichy Sankaran-kanjira
Dylan Bell-Wurlitzer
released January 3, 2007
Produced by Ed Hanley & Suba Sankaran
Recorded by Jeremy Darby at Canterbury Sound, Toronto
Additional recording by Dylan Bell at FreePlay Studios
Edited by Jeremy Darby, Ed Hanley, Suba Sankaran and Dylan Bell
Mixed by Dylan Bell at FreePlay Studios
Mastered at the E-Room by Peter J. Moore
Photography by Rob Allen
Design by Paul Van Dongen
This recording was made possible through the assistance of the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Tracks 1, 6, 7 and 10 commissioned by Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
This recording was made possible through the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.
Special thanks to the musicians and collaborators who have helped shape this music in live performance: Rich Brown, Debashis Sinha, Trichy Sankaran, John Gzowski, Kevin Breit, George Koller, Mark McLean, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, Dylan Bell, Patrick Graham, Marc Rogers and Alan Hetherington
Mark McLean plays Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals and sticks and Regal Tip brushes exclusively
Deb Sinha plays frame drums and other great Canadian made percussion by Mountain Rythym
www.mountainrythym.com
Rich Brown uses Aguilar Amplification and plays Kenneth Lawrence basses