Four Shades by Atlas Maior

Atlas Maior’s Four Shades is an intensely emotional instrumental album that highlights the group’s diverse musical influences from across the globe. The group maps diverse musical traditions by placing Middle Eastern, North Indian, West and North African as well as Latin American musical idioms in dialogue with one another. Diverse in sonic textures and musical styles, this emergent Austin world fusion group highlights a variety of musical traditions while balancing intimate moments of sincerity with powerful cinematic melodies and incendiary rhythmic grooves.

The result of nearly two years of creating original material and performing throughout Central and East Texas, Four Shades was composed, arranged and produced by Atlas Maior and recorded in Mohr Music Studios throughout the course of Summer 2012. The group is an integral piece of the emerging and vibrant world, traditional and international live music scene in Austin, TX, and is actively performing in Central Texas, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. Atlas Maior’s Four Shades is a medley of both soulful and driving melodies played on the ‘ud (Middle Eastern lute) and alto saxophone, swimming through the water-like waves of the Indian tabla drums and other non-Western traditional percussion instruments.

Atlas Maior makes original music informed by Jazz, Arab, Turkish and Latin American musical traditions.

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