Abhishek Ray – Symphonies of the Taj (Music Today, 2011) This album is intended to evoke some of the grandeur and romantic aura of the…
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Freedom and Leela’s Mantra Fusion
Freedom and Leela – Ru (Times Music, 2011) This is an album for the more spiritually inclined. The 9 tracks are renditions of sacred Hindu…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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