Freedom and Leela – Ru (Times Music, 2011) This is an album for the more spiritually inclined. The 9 tracks are renditions of sacred Hindu…
Freedom and Leela’s Mantra Fusion
Tag: Indian music
Grammatical Aspects Of Carnatic Music
Music is universal and is the life line of sublime expression. Carnatic music is basically an application in complete expansion within given restrictions. An artistic…
Baba Da’s Great Tradition
Adidam Sacred Music Guild – Baba Da’s Great Tradition (WorldWide Records, 2007) The acoustic music on this CD was spontaneously improvised by musicians from the…
The Experimental Side of Sheila Chandra
Sheila Chandra – This Sentence is True (EMI/Narada, 2001) Sheila Chandra, the Anglo-Indian singer who released a number of synth-pop albums in the 1980s, is…
Sheila Chandra Out on Her Own
Sheila Chandra – Out on my own (Indipop, 1984, reissued by Narada//EMI in 2000) This is a slender album by today’s standards, with 10 tracks…
Anoushka Shankar Live, a Dazzling Experience
Last night, March 21, sitar phenomenon, composer and world music star Anoushka Shankar performed at Fletcher Hall in the Carolina Theater of Durham, North Carolina.…
Artist Profiles: Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar was born on June 9, 1981 in London, England. Anoushka is the daughter of the late Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar, and she…
The Diverse Background of Jai Uttal
Jai Uttal – Spirit Room: A Retrospective (Free Spirit/Triloka, 2000) Jai Uttal is a veteran musician and singer-songwriter from New York, and this album reflects…
Anita Aysola’s Captivating Wide Range of Influences
Anita Aysola – Beyond Our Dreams (Anita Aysola, 2018) Singer-songwriter and pianist Anita Aysola, an artist born in India and raised in the USA, bridges…
Raga Jazz from Washington DC
On All Barriers Fall (Buzkhashi Rercords, 2018), Washington DC-based Broto Roy Quartet plays original melodic pieces and improvisation, where Indian music meets American jazz. The…