World Music
At the beginning of the 1990s, world music beckoned – kicking off in Bombay with Asha Bhosle and Boy George, Gordon recorded in orchards and deserts in Pakistan, in cemeteries in Morocco, in libraries in Egypt, in percussion schools in Ghana, in remote villages in The Gambia. After studying gamelan in Bali and recording film sound in Turkey, he formed the Mira Ensemble with journalist Peter Culshaw in 1995, releasing an album 'New Hope For the Dead'. They created an elaborate theatrical presentation, which collapsed under its own weight after two performances at the Place Theatre, in London and an appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1997.
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