Mumbai Taxi
Personnel:Phil Christopher, vocals and guitar; Kevin Kouts, drums; Baba Akinwala Yudiddiyuh, percussion; Bill Moss, bass; Larry Griffin-Sledge, keyboards.
Performance:3:45 p.m. June 28, Midsummer Music Festival, Muncie; www.myspace.com/midsummermusicfe...>
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Before psychedelic bands of the 1960s, freedom to improvise was heard in jazz and blues performances but not in rock ‘n’ roll, Phil Christopher says.
Mumbai Taxi is Christopher’s rock-meets-world band that operates on the fly.
“If you give yourself permission to invent music as you play it, you’re never really trapped,” the guitarist-vocalist says. “Even the three-minute song isn’t a closed box.”
Christopher heaps praise on Mumbai Taxi drummer Kevin Kouts, whose credits range from country band Stockwell Road to tropical party band Dog Talk, and percussionist Baba Akinwala Yudiddiyuh, a longtime practitioner of West African and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
“The guy with the hand drum is actually setting everything up for the rest of us,” Christopher says.
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