"Outrageously evocative [it] is unlike anything else in the sonic universe... The effect is erotic, obscene, streetwise and jazz-like.  Propelled by da riddum, Hanrahan's words groove like the hottest, wildest saxophone you could ever imagine.  Wanna dance!"
- Joe Vanderford, Independent Weekly

"The soundtrack is a cross-rhythmic, cross cultural swirl, dizzy with ideas.  It's about the music itself, not anyone's image of the other."
- Jon Pareles, New York Times

".Labyrinths within tales, how the heart spins its song."
- Jason Weiss, Latin American Literature and Arts

KIP HANRAHAN
A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (1-RED NIGHTS)

KIP HANRAHAN, DON PULLEN, ROBBY AMEEN, CARMEN LUNDY, CHARLES NEVILLE, JACK BRUCE, BRANDON ROSS, EL NEGRO HORACIO HERNANDEZ, HENRY THREADGIL, SILVANA DELUIGI, MIKE CAIN, DD JACKSON, ANTHONY CARRILLO, FERNANDO SAUNDERS, PUNTILLA ORLANDO RIOS, MILTON CARDONA, ALFREDO TRIFF, ERIC SCHENKMAN, ANDY GONZALEZ, STEVE SWALLOW, ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ

(1)—Shahrazad (opening),
(2)—within which Shahrazad starts telling the story of Sitt al Mila / Zumurrud,
(3)—within which Zumurrud starts relating the Jewish Doctor's Tale, within which the Jewish Doctor mentions Hashim ibn Sulamain who told him about Aziz's explanation of why he's destroyed as a man,
(4)—The story of Aziz and Azizah,
(5)—within which Azizah consoles herself with Puntilla's story of Diente de Oro,
(6)—Aziz and Azizah, story continues,
(7)—and she sings Aziz to rest with excerpts of a traveler's stories she'd heard: al–Mamuun and the Arab Girl by the Well,
(8)—The Lost Prince (excerpt from the Third Dervih's Tale),
(9)—Taj al–Muluk and Princess Dunya,
(10)—Dunya's nocturnal realization,
(11)—Shahrazad shifts angles, introducing:
(12)—The Yemeni merchant and the three different Colored Women,
(13)—The Jinniyya who envied human suffering,
(14)—The Hasheater's tale,
(15)—The Angel Charles and the Caravans of Jinns and Dreams,
(16)—Shahrazad and the closing of the first night of stories
—sound-bites are underlined—

Produced by Kip Hanrahan
Recorded June 1994 through May 1996
released September 1996
AMCL 1036