"When Parallel Lines Meet" CD Release – Welcome to the Online Listening Party!
16 Apr
Ⓒ 2010 Bridging Hemispheres/ASCAP
While you listen to the music, I’ve got a little treat for your eyes; it’s a special 60-second slideshow I just created using some stills from the footage of the January 4, 2010 “birth celebration” in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Please contact me if you are interested in the video of the concert.
By the way, if you dig what you’re hearing, please consider:
When Parallel Lines Meet is now available for purchase at Amoeba Music Store in Los Angeles and also at online retail stores, including Amazon, iTunes, CD Baby, CD Freedom, and more. However, you will get a super deal if you download the music or purchase the CD at the ManishaMusic Webstore, which offers downloads of a superior quality and CDs signed with a personal note to you or the recipient. Plus, when you buy music from my webstore, your hard earned money will not fill the coffers of a third party intermediary. And, best of all, my webstore is open to anyone, anywhere in the world.
p.s. Got 98 seconds? If you haven’t already seen it, please be sure to check out the new music video! (You can see it in HD on YouTube, as well.)
p.p.s. For anyone interested in upcoming real life CD release events, join me at the KUT radio-sponsored evening on 4/20 at Momo’s in downtown Austin, TX w/Oliver Rajamani, Brad Taylor, Russell Scanlon (plus two other great bands on the bill) and on 4/24 at the Neutral Ground Coffeehouse in New Orleans (sharing the bill with the fabulous Lilli Lewis). Join the mailing list to keep posted on future tour dates & release events.
Thanks for dropping by the newly renovated lounge at Bridging Hemispheres!
Congratulations, Manisha, the new album is fantastic! Such diversity and beauty, a real joy to listen to … so fun to stop by and be a part of the celebration!
I remember the first time I heard Manisha Shahane sing…it was on a YouTube video, and even via that recording, the pure, versatile beauty of her voice and energy of her soul came through… I have been a fan ever since.
Each song on this album tells a story, and the arrangements vary from (my unofficial terms) jazz to world music to a contemporary-classic folk feel with a richness that can't be categorized. Because the lyrics tell stories, you can listen to every word; because the music is cool, unique, beautiful, you can play the album simply to soothe and rejuvenate your spirit. It's impossible for me to pick faves from the 10 tracks, but if I had to, I'd say "Girls Gone World," "How Things Change," and "In Search of Yaman."
My eclectic musical tastes run from classic jazz greats — Ella, Nina, Lena — to Jimi Hendrix, to anything with flute (jazz, Telemann, Native American), to electronica, to medieval a cappella music performed by Anonymous Four. I'm adding Manisha Shahane's new music to my list of favorites!
Still is my favorite song on the album because of its elegant complexity. There is a true symphonic interplay between the vocals and the instrumentation whereby the whole is greater than the sum of the already exceptional parts. The effect is that of a dance in which the vocals lead but each of the other instruments takes a turn stepping forward discreetly in support of the larger work. The timing and movement of this dance is flawless. This piece more than any other showcases the potential of Manisha's beautiful vocal talent, with bridges as grand as the Golden Gate and as lovely as the Rialto. I have listened to this album numerous times and this song is my favorite, still. Kudos to the flautist and percussionist for their superb work on this piece/dance.