Kit Walker's Profile |
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world/jazz keyboardist, composer, & producer |
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| Location: | San Francisco Bay Area, California |
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| Last Login: | Jun 1, 2008 (81 days back) |
About Me |
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Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor 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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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 4/2/2006Band Website: kitwalker.com Band Members: SIGN MY MAILING LIST HERE: Subscribe Unsubscribe your privacy is highly respected. email opt-in confirmation page follows. visit me at this exciting new music site last.fmcheck out my playlist from last.fm: 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"
Record Label: Windham Hill Jazz, HUM Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Nu-Jazz / Jazz / Alternative) |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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inside/outside |
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| 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 |
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Renaissance |
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| 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 |
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Eternity |
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| 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 |
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Oil=Ego |
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| 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 |
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The Lamp That Needs No Oil |
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| 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 |
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from Lao Tzu |
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| 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 |
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Amrita Nadi |
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| 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 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on prayer |
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| "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 |
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Live the Current of Reality Itself |
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| "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 |
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the heart has a question |
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| 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 |
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My Friends |
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Kundalini Boombox, Gary Brown, Kai Eckhardt, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim, Eyedentity, Andy Rinehart, Jose Neto, Evoke, Celso Alberti, Nguyen Le, Chico Huff, Katia Moraes, Frank Briggs, Michaelangelo, Talya G.A Solan, Najam Sheraz, Leïla Olivesi, Mokhtar Samba, Katan, Deva Premal & Miten, spizeyes!, Benoît Sauvé, Chico Pinheiro, Adi Da, ’First Room’ Theatre Guild, SEER, Salif Keita, Beg An Dorchenn Project, SIXUN, Jan Garbarek, heRbIVoRe, Sidney Linhares, Annie Sajdera, TEAM SKEME REMIXED, Michael J McEvoy, Orchid-Star, ~ One Nation One Love ~, BODHI, uMana, Owen Harris and the Saracens, Fragileworld- Children of War-, Nanda Re, Antonio Resende, Brenda, Taaroa, JORGE PENSI, Tyrone Smith, Divakar, Raji Susanne Atorf, Morocking, FIELOK, Arlette Productions, andrea grossi, Claudio Yáñez, Pablo Regnando, "Strick9" is back in the Studio!, Marilia Giller, Gina/Mizar5, Sheela, RICHY, Ray Lyon, PEDRO FERREYRA, Dr-KAOLIMBA, marco fiorenzano, As Kindred Spirits, foschieviola ®, Ilya Yeresko, Krzyszt of Misiak, The Hippie Love Gods
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