Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering is an album by bassist Jonas Hellborg, released on 25 January 2003 through Bardo Records. The album merges contemporary jazz-fusion and traditional Indian improvised music[2][3][4] and features guitarist Shawn Lane in his last officially released studio recording before his death in September of that year,[5] as well as the sons of ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram: Selvaganesh (kanjeera), Umashankar (ghatam) and Umamamesh (vocals), who also perform passages of konnakol, the vocal "scatting" often used as a memory device by Indian percussionists.[6] The album's name stands for a common cross-cultural ideal image, beyond vanity and self-identity, also present in this kind of musical communication.[7]

Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering
Studio album by Jonas Hellborg
Released	25 January 2003 (2003-01-25)
Recorded	Air Edel Studios in London, England; Bardo Studios in New York City; The Dungeon in Memphis, Tennessee
Genre	Jazz fusion, world fusion
Length	59:19
Label	Bardo
Producer	Jonas Hellborg
Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane chronology
Personae (2002) Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

Personnel

• Jonas Hellborg – bass, production
• Shawn Lane – guitar
• V. Umamahesh – vocals
• V. Selvaganesh – konnakol, kanjira
• V. Umashankar – konnakol, ghatam

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