Indian Music
i know everyone here is of the indie canon and all, but you are also music lovers, and as such may have broad horizons.
can you recommend me any good indian music, old or new, not ravi shankar. cheers.
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No, fuck off.
is that how much it costs?
What, for a pair of your mums knickers?
Just
Don't buy the new Nitin Sahwney album and you'll be fine!
What type of Injun music you want?
Classical, Bollywood, new schtuff?
i dont really know
lets go with classical for now - show me what you've got...
o i once heard something by
avinder parveen (or something) and liked it.
Abida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abida_Parveen
You should listen to BBC Asian Network's shows and see what kind of thing you like to get a good overview (and save you buying downloading things you may not like).
abida parveen is fantastic
FAO codswallop
are you unhappy?
FAO MyOracleTelevision
FUCK OFF.
FAO oh dear
what happened to you today?
Pinbalol Fortress.
Hows it going dude!
crackers crackers downtown dribble
do you seem likely to cream cheese?
Call of The Valley
by Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia, the best selling "classical" album in India. Has all you will need in one fix... plus its a "concept album" from 1968 so scores extra point on the cool wall.
This
http://www.amazon.com/Meeting-River-Cooder-V-M-Bhatt/dp/B000005L9Z
Is a great little album
Ravi Shanker
This:
Asha Bhosle (as in Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha")
Kishore Kumar
Udit Narayan
Rahul Dev Burman
Chitra
Anoushka Shankar?
Bollywood Steel Guitar Compilation
is really ace
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ehY-APTHj1Q&feature=related
JoFo
rip this guy off bit time, and i will too.
he's pakistani
OUTRAGE
Indian Ropeman
breakbeat with sitars etc. The album is on Skint Records. Its suprisingly good!
more...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQz1yTSGA4&feature=related
the original tweexcore, hanclaps, shouty hooks and jounty dancing
Proper Indian classical music is incredible
You can't go wrong with anything by Ali Akbar Khan (sarod) or Nikhil Bannerjee (sitar) who are both legends of Indian music I'm reliably informed. Or indeed Ravi Shankar, providing you don't buy anything with Bono on it or whatever.
Also Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was from Pakistan and played Qawwali which is very different to Indian music but well worth investigating. As with Shankar, avoid the 'contemporary' stuff he did and go for the real deal. It's incredible.
Mohammed Rafi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHA_S48KRrI
pandit pran nath
was a great influence on terry riley and lamonte young and all that crowd ....
I'm quite surprised
at the level of knowledge of south asian music here... not that I'm an expert but it's dented my illusions. The only ones I would add are:
Zakir Hussain (tabla master)
Malkit Singh (bhangra... punjabi music)
Niraj Chag - www.nirajchag.com - a plug really since he's a friend of mine, but he's very good, he mixes all the styles up
Rajastani music is great as well but I've no specific recommendations... also if you're on emusic, it actually has a reasonably good selection of indian music