THE BLUE
Privately distributed Dec. 2000; released and distributed worldwide by One Way Records, October 2001

Produced, recorded & mixed, live by Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo: electric guitar atmospheres & rhythm programming (track 5), Shankar - double neck electric violin, voice & tambourine.

TRACK LIST
1. The Beginning
2. The Guide
3. The Unknown
4. The Trip
5. The Experiment
6. The Lesson
7. The End

Warren says: "This music was improvised live to a 2-track digital at my home studio in London. The spontaneous creations captured on this CD are what I consider to be music in its purest form - composition from literally, out of the blue." He described it to me in 1998 as very "stream-of-consciousness" playing between himself and Shankar. The press release describes it as "atmospheric music with guitar, violins and vocals."

Who's Shankar? Shankar is a musician who has been friends with Warren for a long time. According to Warren, Shankar started with John McLaughlin in a band called Shakti. He was a popular Indian classical musician who played traditional Indian classical music, and with McLaughlin, he was introduced into the fusion world and established his name playing violin. After that, Shankar did his own projects and began working with Peter Gabriel, including the WOMAD festivals. Shankar was in a band called The Epidemics in the mid 80's, and Warren played guitar on one of their albums. Shankar has also played on movie soundtracks, including The Last Temptation Of Christ. Besides all that, he worked with Frank Zappa on the 1978 tour.