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Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale are "Breathing Under Water"Together, Shankar and Kale create a complex blanket of music with sitar, and keyboards & percussion. A modern take of a traditional sound. Sometimes vocalists like Norah Jones and Sting sing atop those magic carpets of sound, and Anoushka’s father Ravi Shankar accompanies them on tracks 11 and 12.
comments / tracks of interest:
#2: rapid sitar movement, instrumental
#3: title track, instrumental
#4: Sting
#5: instrumentation naturally highlights vocalist
#6: casts a feeling of urgency
#7: Norah Jones
#8: full orchestra
#’s 11 & 12: feature Ravi Shankar#13: very short, comparatively
Putumayo Presents: "World Hits"
The World’s been hit by many familiar tunes here. From Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger, and Santana, to S. Africa’s performer of Pata Pata, Miriam Makeba, you’re bound to recognize and appreciate something on this album.
comments / tracks of interest:
#1: Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
#2: Afro pop from the 1970’s & 80’s w/ a reggae groove
#3: French and English lyrics, somewhat ambient
#4: soul/jazz Afro-Cuban tune
#5: a popular Santana song featuring “the scratcher”
#6: a cult classic
#7: a song that claimed fame to the “forbidden dance”
#8: the first African song to reach the “top 20 pop charts”
#10: Congolese rumba jazz by sharp Cameroonian saxophone player#11: rumba-flamenco
Caravan of Light:
A flickering flame captivates one’s mind/body/spirit connection to the temperature of each moment. Such is the effect of this musical compilation of incantation music. With influences from India, Persia, Turkey, and Tibet, the musicians featured here explore spiritual connections through traditional acoustic and ambient electronic music. Mostly instrumental, *unless noted otherwise* and tend to have a significant running time for each song…at least 4-5 minutes…providing plenty of opportunity for educing trance.
comments / tracks of interest:
#1: mystical w/ interesting rhythm patterns
#2: deep base line w/ occasional scratching/scribbling sounds
#5: female vocals and tables
#7: female vocals used as instrument, no lyrics
#8: didgeridoo
#9: features female vocalist (in Arabic?)
#10: (Indian?) female vocals on equal volume levels as instruments.#11: more female vocals, drum set provides a “rock” feel…English lyrics
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