Personnel: Jai Uttal (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, harmonica, harmonium, keyboards, kanjira, percussion, sampler); Ezra Gopal Teixeira Uttal (vocals); Dr. Mysore Manjunath (violin); Peter Apfelbaum (melodica, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, glockenspiel, drums); Jeff Cressman (trombone); Ben Leinbach (keyboards, glockenspiel, bass drum, snare drum, pans, percussion, background vocals); Bill Laswell (fretless bass, percussion); Michael Spiro (snare drum, congas, bongos, talking drum, cuica, pandeiro, repenique, shaker, surdo, wood block, caxixi); Sandy Griffith, Timothy Fett, Samantha Bakall, Mitchell Owens, Nora V. Richards, Jacqueline Meadow, Chicago Children's Choir, Adriana Flocco, Nick Feder, Josephine Lee, Sandy Cressman, Tina Malia (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Ben Leinbach; Bill Laswell .
Recording information: Cressman Studios, San Francisco, CA; LoveLand Studios; Old Bull Studios, San Anselmo, CA.
Photographer: Jeffery Newbury.
Jai Uttal's intensive study of Indian music with legendary sarod player Ali Akbar Khan has led him down a sonic path filled with heavily Eastern-tinged tones, but THUNDER LOVE is another matter entirely. A true example of "world music," it's a pan-cultural potpourri of sounds and styles from around the globe, seamlessly sewn into a contemporary pop/rock format. Uttal's soulful singing and spiritual themes provide the crucial connective thread throughout the album.
