Sangria CD Reviews

Ancient Future, the world’s “first and longest running band dedicated exclusively to the mission of creating world fusion music” has brought out Sangria, the first album in its World Jazz series.This debut recording features original compositions of multi-instrumentalist Mariah Parker, who has drawn musical inspiration from Brazil, Cuba, Spain, and […]

This is the impressive solo CD debut of a pianist-composer known primarily for her performances with the longtime Marin world music group Ancient Future. Parker, who worked with Mickey Hart on his “Planet Drum” project when she was completing her music degree at UC Santa Cruz, describes her style on […]

As we can read on the cover, Sangria promise is “An Indo Latin Jazz Musical Experience’ yet often these both these ethnic flavors are so intimately fused that the result turns into a new and fresh sonority. The Latin and Indian rhythms come together naturally, blending smoothly into the sound […]

Like the festive wine and fruit drink the album takes its name from, the music on Mariah Parker’s “Sangria” is, indeed, an intoxicating melange of diverse sonic ingredients. The album’s subtitle: “An Indo Latin Jazz Musical Experience” further hints at the heady fusion contained within. Mariah shines on piano and […]

Sangria is billed as an Indo Latin Jazz Musical Experience. While we weren’t quite sure what to expect, we were pleasantly surprised as the opener “Waterwheel” bathed us in relaxing harmonies. The blending of musical cultures here works extremely well! Parker plays piano and santur with support from Matthew Montfort […]

Sangria: An Indo Latin Jazz Experience Mariah Parker, Ancient-Future.com Records If Seven Serenades for Scalloped Guitar were considered the original, then Sangria: An Indo Latin Jazz Experience by Mariah Parker would certainly be a sequel of sorts. Parker produced this debut recording with Serenades Matthew Montfort. She composed and played […]

Smooth Jazz Now (SmoothJazzNow.com) is an Internet radio station based in Calgary, Canada, with a worldwide audience that generates over 4 million hits per month. Two tracks from Mariah Parker’s 2009 debut release, Sangria, “Pente” and “Waterwheel,” made the SmoothJazzNow.com Top 100 Songs of 2009 list. Mariah Parker joins an […]

Translation: The subtitle of Mariah Parker’s album Sangria reads “An Indo Latin Jazz Musical Experience”. Parker also plays in the world fusion group Ancient Future led by Matthew Montfort, and Montfort and members of the band also perform here, on Parker’s solo-album. Parker wrote all compositions, and plays piano and […]

Pianist Mariah Parker cooks up a heady stew of jazz/world fusion on Sangria, a spicy intoxicating mixture of straight-up jazz inflected with ’70s era fusion (think original Return to Forever, circa Light as a Feather) and global influences from both South America and India. The CD cover reads “An Indo […]

This album with its mixture of East Indian and Latin rhythms was a terrific audio surprise. Ancient Future pianist Mariah Parker throws some quirky jazz into her World fusion mix and the results are quite appealing. Overall, the music has that upbeat Latin tempo, but it is created with Middle […]