Realize
Karsh Kale's debut,Realize, ups the ante and spins his scene--the  Asian Massive movement--into gold with a stunning coming  together of electronic dance music, Indian folk and raga, and  classical. Both songwriter and percussionist, Kale has long been a  compatriot ofTalvin Singhand  has played with Bill Laswell's intriguing < a href="/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/210353/${0}">Tabla Beat Scienceproject.Realizeis grounded in layers of percussive wonder,  swaddled in guitars, cello, flutes, and supreme vocals, then flipped  upside down and alchemically reimagined inside out and sideways. A  bhajan becomes a drum-and-bass song, as well as the other way around.  The beautiful and rhythmically complex "Saajana," written in the Indian  folk bhajan tradition, is exemplary of just this. The sound of infinite  bird wings beating upward to the heavens,Realizeis a sonic  circus of right on.--Paige La Grone