RELEASED: January 1st 1979
LABEL: UMP Records - Philo/Rounder Records
TRACKS: 8
TOTAL LENGTH: 00:44:58
FORMAT: 320 kbps MP3
CATEGORIES: Inspired Music
GENRE: World / International, Jazz, New Age

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New 24-bit Mastering from the Original Recordings!

Recorded in 1978 and released in 1979 by the Vermont based, Philo Record label and distributed by Rounder Records, Do'a - Randy Armstrong & Ken LaRoche's second album expands from a duo with the addition of acoustic bass, tabla, drums, santour, and a wide variety of percussion, wind and string instruments. Randy Armstrong - Guitars, String Instruments, Percussion Vocals Ken LaRoche - Flutes, Wind Instruments, Piano, Percussion, Vocals Dr. M. Taraz - Persian Santour Marty Quinn - North Indian Tabla, Moroccan Clay Drums John Hunter - Acoustic Bass Bill Kinzie - Drums, Castanets Nora Stats, Carol Hanson, Bob Crenshaw - Vocals

"The world is a smorgasbord of musical riches and to hear these many musics is, for a music-maker, to want to taste them all. A teacher once told me not to worry about being so eclectic: "Go deeper into each," he said, "and your own will emerge." So I commend to you, the listener, this rich pot-pourri that is Do'a. Listen well, and savor: music can nourish a hungry soul." - Paul Winter

"A rich collection of compositions featuring traditional and archaic instruments which provide the listener with a sense of peace tinged with a certain sadness that isn't found very often in today's music. This is spiritual jazz." - Billboard

Do'a is an Arabic-Persian word signifying a call to prayer, meditation, chanting and worship.

Randy Armstrong - Guitars, String Instruments, Percussion, Vocals
Ken LaRoche - Flutes, Wind Instruments, Piano, Percussion, Vocals
Dr. M. Taraz - Persian Santour
Marty Quinn - North Indian Tabla, Moroccan Clay Drums
John Hunter - Acoustic Bass
Bill Kinzie - Drums, Castanets
Nora Stats, Carol Hanson, Bob Crenshaw - Vocals

Recorded at Earth Audio Techniques, North Ferrisburg, Vermont
March & April 1979
Engineered by Charles Eller

Original Graphic Design by Margo Zalkind-Schur
Photography by Erik Borg
Graphic Design for the Remastered Album by Jan Marvel & Michelle Vaughn

Original Release Date: 1979 by Philo Records distributed by Rounder Records
Library of Congress - #79-750487

24-bit Mastering from the Original Recordings at:
M-WORKS, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mastering Engineered by by Matthew Azevedo - October 2006

Philo Records encourages the artist to assume full creative control over his or her album. This record is as conceived by the artist. - William Schubart, President, Philo Records Inc.

All compositions by Randy Armstrong / Ken LaRoche
except Song of the Dove by Randy Armstrong and Oneness by Ken LaRoche
©1978 Crimson Ark Music, BMI