Monday, October 31 2011
Slide to Freedom: 20,000 Miles
The veena remains Indian, the guitar remains American. They share ideas, but they're always looping back to their origins.
Tuesday, August 16 2011
Ilaiyaraaja: Solla Solla: The Electronic Pop Sound of Kollywood 1977-1983
An inventive go-for-broke landscape, stuffed with drama and orchestras.
Tuesday, July 5 2011
Oi, You Alright?: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Journey from India to America
As an Indian PhD student at an American university, Sriram Dayanand was given a front row seat to the pre-Internet maelstrom that was the glory of rock 'n' roll. Now covering cricket for ESPN and Sports Illustrated, he details what it was like to journey from musical scarcity in India, to the rock pantheon of the United States.
Tuesday, May 31 2011
Amjad Ali Khan and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Samaagam
Like an essay built around the regular insertion of aphorisms.
Thursday, April 28 2011
Delhi 2 Dublin : Planet Electric
The band's own personal bhangra-variant, with Irish fiddling.
Monday, February 28 2011
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon: Soul Call: Om Namo Narayanaya
She sticks to a strong sound, decisive and always joyful, tender, tireless.
Wednesday, January 12 2011
Various Artists: Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga!
Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga! offers the screeching guitar tones and blurting organs you'd expect, with spirited and blissful head trips peppering its 20 thoroughly researched selections.
Monday, July 19 2010
V.M. Bhatt & Matt Malley: Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights proposes a form of music that wishes to escape categorization based on "Eastern" and "Western" styles and traditions. The sliding notes of the guitar represent, for these musicians, an opportunity to evade the musical border police.
Friday, October 30 2009
Vandana Vishwas: Meera - The Lover
Through most of the album, the mood is one of devout serenity and subtle modulation.
