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Out of Salvador, the capitol of Bahia, the still red hot kitchen that gave us the original samba, capoeira, Caetana Velosa, Gilberto Gil, Olodum and Ile Aye, comes Sundaryalaharifusing Middle Eastern, Brazilian and the great American and
 The New Recording: The Wave of BlissLayne Redmond has been teaching her hybrid techniques on Middle Eastern style tambourine to a core group of cutting edge percussionists in Salvador. Along the way she met up with Tadeu Mascarenhas, a young recording engineer, producer and genius keyboard player, who became her co-producer on this project. Besides the amazing core percussionists, Gil Santiago, Paulo Silva, Moisés Cruz and Ubaldo Oliveira, they brought in the outstanding guitarist Fred Barreto and fabulous singer Mariella Santiago.  The Cult Table is from the recording The Wave of Bliss. Produced by Layne Redmond and Tadeu Mascarenhas.
These young musicians grew up immersed in the musical traditions of Salvador but also playing American and English rock and funk. Ubaldo's grandmother is a priestess of candomble´, and he began playing atabaque in the terreiro when he was 6 years old, played with Os Zarabe and directs the bloco Akidara. Moisés has played with Olodum, Ile Aye, Os Zarabe, and Daneila Mercury. Gil is one of only three percussionists in the state orchestra of Bahia and won the coveted Troféu Caymi, awarded to the most outstanding musician in Bahia. Paulo returned last year from a scholarship to Mannheim University of Music in Germany and plays in several rock bands. Fred, a great acoustic and electric guitarist, bounces back and forth between Brazil and Europe. Mariella, touring and recording her own projects, has also backed up Gilberto Gil and Carlinhos Brown. Blurring boundaries, her provocative style draws on her heritage but flows in distinctly original directions –- think Joni Mitchell meets Ella Fitzgerald at a candomble´ ritual!
 Layne Redmond’s last two cds, Trance Union & Invoking the Muse were voted Percussion Recording of the Year by Drum! Magazine readers.
 Click To Play Sundaryalahari performing Whirled Jam. UFBA Percussion Festival, Salvador, Bahia, Nov. 28, 2006. Directed by Layne Redmond with Paulo Silva, Gilberto Gil Santiago, Tadeu Mascarenhas, Ubaldo Oliveira, Moises Cruz, Ramon Barreto, Everton Isidoro, Rangel Menezes, Eduardo Mota.  Click To Play Sundaryalahari performing Amyrta at the UFBA Percusion Festival, Nov. 28, 2006. Directed by Layne Redmond with Paulo Silva, Gilberto Gil Santiago, Tadeu Mascarenhas, Ubaldo Oliveira, Moises Cruz, Ramon Barreto, Everton Isidoro, Rangel Menezes, Eduardo Mota.  LISTEN TO TRACKS ON MYSPACE! Contact: Office of Layne Redmond
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