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- Title
The Rough Guide to the Asian Underground (Music).
- Authors
Larrick, Geary
- Abstract
This article reviews the music release The Rough Guide to the Asian Underground. This exciting, yet calming fusion of musical cultures is, according to program notes, a rage in Great Britain. It is new music, based on traditions centuries old. Voice, instruments and percussion are all featured in a form that can be described as classic popular music. Drumset, tabla drums, voice synthesizer, and sitar each fit equitably in a cohesive fashion. Asian Underground refers to music created and composed in homes rather than in institutions. This enjoyable music offers the listener a pleasant blend of melody, rhythm, harmony tone color, or timbre, put together by good musicians familiar with their medium. Titles included Streets of Calcutta, Ja Sha Taan, Nataraj Express, and Mixed Vision. Thoughtful themes abound, combined with basic groove and tasteful expression. The recording artists on this 15-track album are, in part, Bill Ravi Harris, James Asher, Shivanova, Joi, Sister India, and Ananda Shankar. This CD, priced at $16.98, runs for 78 minutes and is highly recommended. It is releases by the London-based World Music Network in 2003.
- Subjects
ROUGH Guide to the Asian Underground, The (Music); ELECTRONIC dance music; HOUSE music; POPULAR music; DANCE music
- Publication
Multicultural Review, 2003, Vol 12, Issue 3, p107
- ISSN
1058-9236
- Publication type
Entertainment Review