Ancient Future

The world's first and longest running musical ensemble dedicated to the creation of world fusion music

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Conversation with Matthew Montfort re: the new Ancient Future LP, Purple Spirits. It goes into the Boulder history of the band, including Benjy Wertheimer & #JelloBiafra, who were born June 17! With 3 Purple Spirits tracks! #Nirvana #BoulderHigh

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Rave review of the new Ancient Future album Purple Spirits from Peter Thelen on the Prog site Exposé, Exploring the Boundaries of Rock!
#prog #worldmusic #zakirhussain #hendrix #flamenco #worldfusion #nirvana

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@Tommi67674041 Purple Spirits by Ancient Future has seven psychedelic tracks in tribute to musical giants: https://t.co/eCbjntRKsD

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The 8th Ancient Future album, Purple Spirits, drops today!
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Punjabi Jhinzaki by Ancient Future

Ancient Future - Zakir Hussain History

On 6/8/97, Ancient Future played between #LosLobos & #ZakirHussain at Monterey World One Festival where #JimiHendrix burned his guitar at #MontereyPopFestival 3 decades before.

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https://t.co/3tLw1hYrv7 Zakir Hussain - Ancient Future History: Zakir is on Ancient Future's 2nd Sona Gaia release. No rehearsal funds, so he listened on the way to the studio, memorized the bar numbers, & had questions about sections. I had to check the chart to count the bars!

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@santoshmanjhi_ This tribute to Zakir Hussain features George Brooks (sax), Kai Eckhardt (bass), Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), and Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard guitar). Everyone on the tribute has recorded and performed with Zakir. He is deeply missed.
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Punjabi Jhinzaki by Ancient Future, featuring Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), George Brooks (sax), Kai Eckhardt (bass), and Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard guitar), dropped today on Zakir Hussain's 75th birth anniversary. Happy birthday in the beyond...
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Punjabi Jhinzaki by Ancient Future, featuring Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), George Brooks (sax), Kai Eckhardt (bass), and Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard guitar), dropped today on Zakir Hussain's 75th birth anniversary. Happy birthday in the beyond...
https://t.co/ZbyBC9WhBt

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3 birthday releases: a score fusing flamenco and raga dropped on the anniversary of the 1st Ancient Future concert, a solo flamenco guitar piece by Matthew Montfort dropped on his birthday, and a Zakir Hussain tribute drops on his 75th birthday:

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Ancient Future/Hendrix/Nirvana 11 Syzygy Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze on 1/11/67. Nirvana performed on SNL on 1/11/92. Ancient Future violinist Jim Hurley performed on SNL with Queen Ida on 11/23/85. Hendrix & Nirvana are our 1st ever rock covers: https://t.co/vTXnGzcWyz

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There are Spotify boycotts due to ICE ads, algorithms that keep people stuck in genre boxes, and low artist payments. My latest in hi-res on Tidal:
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A raga could be described as melodic recipe for a mood in Indian classical music. Tarantas has similarities to alap, the section of a raga where the mood is thoroughly explored without tempo before the tabla enters.

Tarantas Alap weaves both together.

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Tarantas is a flamenco palo (form) including dissonances resulting from the guitar's first three open strings in combination with the F# Phrygian mode. It's toque libre, a free form expression that lacks compás (rhythmic cycle).

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On Dec 26, 1966, Jimi Hendrix wrote ‘Purple Haze’ between sets. Check out Ancient Future's version:
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#hendrix #vietnamesemusic #worldfusion

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"Tarantas Alap," my first solo flamenco guitar release, just dropped today. Listen to the whole piece at: https://t.co/rBuP3CPW4U

#tarantas #flamenco #guitar #Indian #Hindustani #raga #raag #alap #alaap #impressionism #worldfusion #ancientfuture

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My first ever solo recording on flamenco guitar drops this Friday, 12/12/25! But you can pre-save it now at https://t.co/rBuP3CPW4U!

And stay tuned because it's the improvised introduction to my composed piece Tres Tarantas Tres, coming 2/13/26: https://t.co/fyV4nxBDYj

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"Spirit of Nirvana" from Ancient Future's 2025 release, "Purple Nirvana," is the penultimate track on Steve Sheppard's final One World Music Radio Show of 2025. Check it out at 41:00! #Nirvana #worldmusic

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“Spirit of Nirvana” by Ancient Future is featured on "One World Music Radio" on Mixcloud at about 40:13!

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So there you have it. The rapture is real as applied to true believing bushes, tree branches, and workmen who would rather be in heaven than in their boots!

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#Rapture Ancient Future was on West Coast Live with Bruce Cockburn 5/21/11. Sedge Thomson jested about the coming doom. We played End of the Beginning as a nod. But upon returning home several bushes were gone, and there was an empty pair of work boots at the end of the stairs!

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#Rapture 2: At Ancient Future’s new Cloverdale headquarters a tree was scheduled for a little trim 9/22/25. After hearing about the rapture predictions on the news, found that several huge branches of the tree were gone!