Levin/Minassian - Mingled Roots

Shrine by the side of the road from Bangalore to Madikeri, India.

Another tree pic, but we are going from baobab to roots in the mix, after all...

Mingled Roots by Tony Levin and Levon Minassian.

This tune is from Levin's 1995 album World Diary; while this album has substantially more surviving copies than, say, Laghonia's Et Cetera, it was a small enough release that Levin made all of the original CD covers himself by hand (they're a very nice brown paper kind of thing). Appropriately, the record plays more like a mixtape than a coherent album; there's even a clip of Levin's espresso machine that plays a recurring role.

This track is a duet between Levin (on upright bass) and Armenian doudouk player Levon Minassian, whose discography is, to say the least, sparse, but who has the presence to basically drive the track single-handed.

This tune is our first "slowdown" track; it's definitely for the serene listener at a serene moment. But rest assured that patience in listening will be rewarded!