indian music

Just a word of warning. I think Trilok Gurtu now records for Sony Music and the albums I have are way too commercial for me. I'd love to hear some of his earlier stuff. There was a great set at Womad last year done by Ravi Shankar's daughter (no not that one). I can't remember her name. We keep thinking Bianca. I'd love to find some of her stuff too.

 

Lakshmi Shankar by any chance? If so, check out the Ocora page I've linked to above.

 

Lots of great info I shall have some fun looking for bargains on amazon and netsounds over the weekend.



Chris

 

chris ive lost your addy so erm try these,
track 1
track 2
track 3
track 4
track 5
all recorded straight from the foh desk, with the artist consent,and mixed by my fair hand. o and yea i know theres a few bits of feedback,bloody violin player kept moving towards the monitors

 

Very nice MH. Who is the singer? I'm going to add those to my iPod if that's OK with you.
Chris, if you like Len's tracks, try this

Qareeb by Najma. A bit fusiony (just the slightly dated production style really), but a lovely album nonetheless. You could probably find this s/h on CD or vinyl as it's OoP now, sadly.

 

hiya.

Thanks for trying Len - Unfortunately, my analogue dial up and old computer cant handle it

However other people can get a listen which is a great idea.

Time for some internet purchases methinks!

 

No sorry. On further investigation it's Anouska Shankar. Really enjoyed the Raga's she did at Womad, plus she's fit (unlike Lakshmi!)

I still think she should have been called Bianca though

 

Not sure where you got the Trilok on Sony from. Some of his stuff has been re-issued by Sony only because they bought CMP, who he was with in the 80's and 90's.

Like to know what it was that you thought was 'too commercial'. Here is a link to his albums, maybe you could point out which one http://perso.wanadoo.fr/shortcut/disco.htm

Also can highly recommend his latest collaboration http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...art_li_1/002-5934781-4724040?v=glance&s=music

 

I can heartly recommend Tabla Beat Science http://www.tablabeatscience.com/ who are tabla/dub loosely based around Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell.

 

Lee,

the album I have is "The Beat Of Love" from 2001. From a personal point of view, whilst the percussion is superb as I was led to expect, it starts well and goes a bit cheesy in parts . Possibly I, being uneducated, subconciously associate Wally Badarou with 80's fromage but some of the stuff just sounds like a fusion of eighties rock with Eastern influences at times. Mybe it's just Badarou's keyboard work. If fusion it must be, I prefer the Western influence to come from Jazz or dance culture.

It is just a personal view, and my experience is VERY limited compared with many on this forum, yourself included. For example, I have no idea where I got the Sony bit from either

Edited to add that I'm listening to it again and the word commercial was somewhat ill advised- although I still think it's cheesy in parts! Really I should know better than to post on this kind of stuff!!!

Bally Sagoo!

 

Ah, now cheesy is something very different and in fact I would not argue with you there about that for various of his tracks. Ill advised on some occasions most definately.

 

A young lady called Najma Akhtar

 

MH, she has a delightful voice. Thanks a million for the contribution.

Bally Sagoo is well worth looking into if you want a bit more of the Nitin/Talvin vibe. Some of his stuff sounds very reminiscent of Nitin's earlier albums such as Migration. Less of the jazz tilt though.

 

So that is Najma. The same Najma who made the album Qareeb I mentioned above. Her voice from the old albums is rather different than on your MP3s, but this makes sense really as she is older now and it's a live recording.
Anyway, it's really good to see she is still making music. Was her (ex ?) boyfriend there that evening I wonder...

 

still plugging the Arab tabla cause - have a gander at this

http://www.oghnia.com/video-display-album.php?newArtistID=NancyAjram&newVideoID=AkhasmakAah

bit thin on mp3, but the percussion weight on the CD is awesome and her voice is pretty horny (first came across this on a compilation - unfortunately the rest of her stuff is not as good)

 

Received the first of the indian purchases today (1 down 2 to go!)

Zakir Hussain/Mclaughlin/Chaurasia/Garbarek Making Music

I am seduced by Indian flute (chaurasia), Hussain's Tabla is fantastic, Mclaughlins acoustic guitar sounds great on this album, but Garbarek's saxophone does take a plunge towards ''kenny G'' at times.

Still, an accessable album for those times I want easy listening indian music.

Ive got another zakir Hussain album coming that is just drums and flute, Im looking forward to that.

7.5/10 for the above though. If you want to get into indian music but you like norah jones, this isnt a bad place to start . Actually, thats a bit cruel. Its quite special in parts. It has a bad dose of pseudo-jazzy bollocks on rare occasions which knocks the score down a bit.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...222/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-2764663-5371843