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Kit Walker is a keyboardist and composer best known for his two Windham Hill Jazz releases, Dancing on the Edge of the World, and Fire in the Lake, which both received international top ten airplay, and critical acclaim. He has also toured the world and recorded with Kitaro, and has recorded and composed music for Steve Smiths Vital Information, as well as on Journey guitarist Neal Schons album Electric World. He is the keyboardist with Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, appearing on their latest two albums, Shiva Station, and the Grammy-nominated Mondo Rama. More recently, Kit has turned to producing, including the two best-selling albums of the devotional singer Deva Premal, Love is Space and Embrace, as well as his own world/jazz release Freehouse. He also currently tours with the Brazilian world jazz percussion master Airto Moreira and vocalist Flora Purim, and with their daughter Diana's group Eyedentity, as well as his own trance-world dance jam band, Kundalini Boombox.more about Kundalini Boombox at:http://www.kundaliniboombox.comhttp://www.myspace.com/kun daliniboombox

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Influences: Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, Olivier Messaien, Shostakovich, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Hendrix, Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Peter Gabriel, Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Jan Garbarek, Larry Young, the Band, Procol Harum, King Crimson, Weather Report, Bjork, Pat Metheny, Captain Beefheart, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steely Dan, Arvo Part, Egberto Gismonti, Thelonious Monk, and countless others.
Sounds Like: "the Henry Thoreau of jazz" - Jazziz magazineKIT WALKER: Freehouse

acoustic/electric third stream world jazz

Listener Review from iTunes about the album "Freehouse"

Strong Album ***** (five stars)

"All of Kit's stuff is good. His sound is a tight fusion of rock and jazz....with a pinch of the Far East thrown in. His music is a major part of the soundtrack of my life. That's not just me reaching for hyperbole. Listening to Global Warning takes me to an intense place that's equal parts focus and calm. How this guy hasn't blown up to Metheny/Vital Information/Weather Report dimensions is beyond me. If you can find them: Dancing On the Edge of the World and Fire in the Lake are albums of his early work. The sound would be as fresh if released now. "
by BENGALTYGER

Record Label: Windham Hill Jazz, HUM
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

inside/outside

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that's love.Between these two my life turns. --Nisargadatta Maharaj...
Posted by Kit Walker on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:39:00 PST

Renaissance

from futurist and trends forecaster Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, NY:"This could be the end of something really ignorant and stupid and dark. The end of a dar...
Posted by Kit Walker on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:53:00 PST

Eternity

The doorway to Eternity is here and now. It is more here than here, and more now than now. It is in the heart. Let the heart be the main organ of perception. All the other senses have their root in th...
Posted by Kit Walker on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:25:00 PST

Oil=Ego

Consider this...... Oil is the symbol for the sickness, the addiction of humanity, which is ego. Oil is energy derived solely from the past, from the condensed remains of life from millions of years a...
Posted by Kit Walker on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:56:00 PST

The Lamp That Needs No Oil

I have made the journey into Nothing.I have lit the lamp thatNeeds no oil.I have cried great streamsOf emerald crystalsOn my scarred knees, begging loveTo never again let me hear fromAny worldThe soun...
Posted by Kit Walker on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:16:00 PST

from Lao Tzu

one of my favoritesfrom one of the greatest sages ever, Lao Tzu...a poignant reflection on the enlightened condition:"All men are so shining-brightas if they were going to the great sacrificial feastO...
Posted by Kit Walker on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:02:00 PST

Amrita Nadi

Sri Ramana Maharshi on Amrita Nadi (the nerve of bliss):"3. The association of the Self with the body is called the Granthi [knot]. By that association alone one is conscious of his body and actions. ...
Posted by Kit Walker on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:13:00 PST

Ralph Waldo Emerson on prayer

"Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious... As soon as a man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action."Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Posted by Kit Walker on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:08:00 PST

Live the Current of Reality Itself

"The body-mind itself is just a circuit for that Energy which is pervading everything. Stop breaking the circuit at the level of the skin and all the centers of the body-mind and let it conduct the Ra...
Posted by Kit Walker on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:49:00 PST

the heart has a question

The heart has a question.The heart must be Satisfied. Without that SatisfactionWhich is necessarily Spiritual in Naturethere is no Real Happiness. The contraction of the heart is what you are sufferin...
Posted by Kit Walker on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:25:00 PST