Paul Livingstone's Arohi Tilak Shyam: A Tribute to Ravi Shankar

OVER DUBS & MIXING: Paul brought the amazing Pedro Eustache to the studio to overlay his beautiful custom-made Bansuri (Indian flute). This track, mixed by Sound Spot's Alejandro Leda, was featured on 90.7 fm KPFK's Ravi Shankar Tribute special, co-hosted by Paul Livingstone himself.

MORE INFO: Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Paul Z. Livingstone is an international performing artist on the sitar and various world strings including fretless & scalloped guitars and requintos of his own design. He has focused his studies in North Indian classical music in which he has been rigorously trained for the past 20 years in India and the US studying under the late under Amiya Dasgupta & subsequently Rajeev Taranath and the living legend Pandit Ravi Shankar. Paul has also developed a unique style of playing his own creative world music on fretless guitar blending Indian ragas, jazz, and traditional rhythmic & melodic concepts & material from diverse world traditions.

Paul has performed in setting as a sitar soloist with Symphony & Choral to ragajazz, pop & rock contexts, in major festivals and venues such as the Hollywood Bowl...

Paul played on Ozomatli's 2005 Grammy award winning 'Street Signs'. Paul also received an LA Music Week Award certificate of appreciation from the City of Los Angeles from District #1 Councilman Ed Reyes. The award & certificate are "In appreciation of pioneering music in our community and dedicating your life in teaching the rich multicultural heritage of music to our youth, therefore making our city a better place in which to live."

Paul has also studied Persian classical music with Hossein Alizadeh, Javanese Gamelan with Pak Djoko Walujo, Macedonian music with Miroslav Tadic, and jazz with Larry Koonse and Charlie Haden. With concert performances in the US, Mexico and Spain, Paul has played & recorded with world music, jazz & popular artists such as Ozomatli, Alanis Morrisette, Lian Ensemble, Swapan Chaudhuri, Geetha Bennett, John Bergamo, Glen Velez, Hossien Alizadeh, Jihad Racy, Poovalur Sriji, Kenny Burrell, Chitravina RaviKiran, Pedro Eustache, Wadada Leo Smith, Sandip Burman and Prince Diabate with whom Paul created a new ensemble called Tumbafé composing new world music and playing sitar with master kora player and griot musician from Guinea, West Africa, Prince Diabaté. This unique and innovative Indo/African quartet was received with tremendous enthusiasm 1992 World Festival of Sacred Music.

Paul has received Artist in the Community grants from the city of Los Angeles has conducted music workshops and produced free and low cost concerts of world music and dance events in schools, churches and community centers since 1993. He is committed to making diverse art forms of music and dance available to people of all backgrounds in Los Angeles.