- Tales from the Skeleton Coast CD

Label Cat#: CMC1 IDC Cat#: IDC0595

Brand new album from Billy Cobham, founding member of the who has exerted a strong influence on the course of and jazz- fusion.

Ever since his breakthrough in the early 1970’s, as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and as a drummer/band leader whose recordings such as Spectrum, with a powerful, complex style of play exerted a strong influence on the course of jazz and jazz-fusion, Billy Cobham has remained a tireless musical Web Addresses: explorer. www.billycobham.com Panamanian by birth, a New Yorker by upbringing, and a resident of Switzerland for the past 30 years, Cobham has pursued an ever-broadening, ever deepening engagement with the world not Track Listing: only as a master drummer and percussionist but as a composer, 1. Pomegranates producer, educator and clinician who gives service through music 2. Sal Si Puedes even as he constantly expands his personal creative horizons. 3. The March of the Pomegranates Cobham’s newest recording “Tales From The Skeleton Coast” on 4. Insel Inside his personal recording label, Creative Multimedia Concepts, 5. The Skeleton Coast provides credence to his ever-deepening exploration of his life 6. Behold 7. Locusts Incoming experiences as reflected through his musical compositions. “Tales 8. Reunion 9 From The Skeleton Coast” is yet another way stop on a journey 9. The Skeleton Coast through the life of a musical traveller in search of total Outro enlightenment. “Tales From The Skeleton Coast” is also the third 10. Cap Breton installment in a four volume series of media presentations that 11. Konakol Billy Cobham has committed to creating in celebration of the lives Conversation of his parents William Emanuel and Ivy Leotta. The previous two 12. Na Pasashok volumes are entitled “Fruit From The Loom” and “Palindrome”. File Under: As a sonic package the music within the “grooves” provides vision and direction for the imaginative journey that transports the Fusion Rock listener from points within the region once known as Southwestern Africa (now Namibia), to the social influences emanating from Panama, central America and the afro-Caribbean community.

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