Watching Trilok Gurtu perform live is a mesmerizing experience, an event that captures all the senses. "Seated amid a panalopy of drums, shaker, cymbals, rattles and other indefinable sound producing objects, he moves from one to the other," wrote Don Heckman for the Los Angeles Times in 1999. And when asked whether critics should classify his music as jazz fusion or world music, Gurtu replied: "It's very hard to categorize not only my music but the music of anybody who is trying to do something different. I think it's the experience that you have gathered from everywhere. In my experience, I gathered a lot from Africa, South India, jazz, Jimi Hendrix, Cream. I heard everything in Bombay--Motown, Otis Redding, Sly Stone." 8:17 Source: Musician Biographies
During these trying times how does he do it ? Always fresh with unbound creativity. A true spiritual inspiration. Just thinking back to the early days with Oregon thru all of the incredible solo projects as a leader to the present. . . A true artist indeed.🙏
