Name: Ouroboros
Duration: 4 min 41 s
Channel: Gino Foti
Description: Instrumental Jazz/World Fusion - A 'tongue-in-cheek' composition featuring fretted and fretless bass guitars, electric guitars, and percussion (mostly doumbeks) playing jazz-funk patterns and also performing a panned call-and-response solo.

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Instrumental Jazz/World Fusion - A 'tongue-in-cheek' composition featuring fretted and fretless bass guitars, electric guitars, and percussion (mostly doumbeks) playing jazz-funk patterns and also performing a panned call-and-response solo.

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Gino Foti

World fusion bass guitarist & keyboardist with over a dozen releases, including an album of J. S. Bach arrangements for one to four bass guitars.

Bass guitar and keyboard player Gino Foti is a world fusion musician on Net Dot Music - an independent record label specializing in instrumental fusion: all-instrumental music that blends several styles and genres. His music explores the relationships between diverse musical traditions, and the dichotomy of rhythm and melody of the bass guitar, by integrating ethnic sonorities into his jazz-rock palette. He has also arranged several Johann Sebastian Bach works for one to four bass guitars, covering both sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental works from the master's oeuvre. Discography: Deep Devotion: J. S. Bach on Bass Guitar Geomantia Global Resonances Xenosonic Journeys Orbis Terrarum Sphere Of Influence Bhavachakra Vedic Mantras Bija Mantras Panchakshara Mystic Gleams Ghiza-i Ruh Breath Of Vishnu Asian Mosaic Indian Mosaic Latin Mosaic Mediterranean Mosaic The Darkness Conscious Standard Deviation (with Electrum) Frames Of Mind (with Electrum)

Song Info

Genre

World • World Fusion

Charts

Peak #405

Peak in subgenre #67

Author

Gino Foti

Rights

2006 Net Dot Music, Inc.

Uploaded

September 01, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:41

Story behind the song

The title refers to an ancient Mediterranean symbol, shown as a snake (or serpent) that is devouring its own tail, representing several concepts, such as: completion, totality, the endless round of existence, and any other cyclic patterns and principles used to describe humanity and/or nature. I thought the symbolism worked well given the extensive use of loops used, the sinuous movement of the arrangement, and its tie-in to the album's main concept: "The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feed-back' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilises himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolises the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which [...] unquestionably stems from man's unconscious". ~ Carl Jung