Paul Cypress and Manose Singh
East meets West as Mediterranean Guitarist Paul Cypress and Bansuri
Flutist Manose Singh join together in their new release "My Beautiful
Gypsy." Through their music, Paul and Manose paint a musical canvas of
their journeys down roads less traveled.
Paul Cypress lives much of his life in Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic Sea, a
crossroads of cultural diversity that inspires his musical style.
He first performed the Mediterranean Guitar style that he developed with
legendary guitarist Antonio Pisac in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 1975. Later
that year he recorded this new style on his first album entitled "The
New Age Guitar." In 1976 the Canadian Broadcasting Company shot a
documentary film about Paul Cypress and his music on location in
Dubrovnik. With the release of his third album in 1979, Paul’s music
had been distributed in thirty countries on European and Canadian record
labels and had been used for film soundtracks in Japan, Canada, and
Europe. Consistent worldwide success followed until the onset of the
Balkan war in 1991. Until the termination of this conflict, nearly ten
years later, Paul did not pursue performance or recording venues.
Possibly the most articulate critique of Paul Cypress was penned by Bob
Smith in Leisure Magazine for the Vancouver Sun Newspaper, British
Columbia, Canada:
"Refreshing and innovative, adept with one hand as the other, the sounds
he elicited from his fingers and fret board whirred like hummingbird
wings."
Manose Singh lives in his native Kathmandu, Nepal; his artistry evokes
the powerful beauty of this ancient and magical place.
Singh is one of the most noteworthy new faces in the world music scene.
At the age of twenty-three, his talent as a solo performer in North
Indian classical music, as well as his versatility in other genres, has
carried him throughout Europe and America. Manose began his studies of
the Bansuri flute (bamboo flute) at the age of eight. As his interest
in music quickly deepened, he went from playing Nepali folk songs and
other popular music to serious study of the Indian Raga form. He was
soon recognized as a child prodigy, and at fifteen he was named as
Nepal’s "Instrumentalist of the Year". He has been teaching bamboo flute
since he was seventeen at the University Of Kathmandu and appears
regularly on Nepali TV and radio. Manose has performed at the annual
Asian Festival in Basel, Switzerland and at numerous Nepalese embassies
around the world. In his 1999 United States Tour he met and began
performing in concert with Paul Cypress, which lead to their newly
released CD.
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