Footprints

by Jai Uttal

Footprints cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1990
  • Label: Triloka
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:23
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

His debut album joins Don Cherry's trumpet and Lakshmi Shankar's voice to Uttal's dotar, harmonium and synthesizers, with Daniel Paul Karp on tabla and Jerry Watts on bass. A student of Ali Akbar Khan, Uttal includes two versions of the traditional prayer 'Raghupati', and the record reached the top ten of the world music charts.

Genres

Descriptors: spirituality, atmospheric, melodic, harmonies, fusion

Tracklist

  1. Footprints (4:06)
  2. Caravan (4:53)
  3. Andobar Island (4:17)
  4. Raghupati (10:57)
  5. Madzoub (7:03)
  6. Pahari (6:12)
  7. Snowview (4:50)
  8. Taking the Dust (2:31)
  9. Raghupati II (3:44)
  10. Bus Has Come (5:46)

Credits

  • Don Cherry - primary artist, trumpet [pocket trumpet], guest trumpet
  • Lakshmi Shankar - primary artist, vocals, guest lead vocals vocal
  • The Duke Design Co. - art direction
  • K.D. Kagel - executive-producer
  • Mitchell Markus - executive-producer
  • Paul A. Sloman - executive-producer
  • Bruce Granofsky - mixed by
  • Micko Frey - mixed by
  • Roger Nichols - mixed by

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