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Music for the soul

Sky Kisses Earth by Prem Joshua
This post was somehow purged while doing the transfer and so here it is.
Around 1999 I used to work on contract for Medstat, in Ypsilanti, Michigan. I will never forget this person who also used to work on contract with them because when I befriended him he would tell me [...]

Melodious guitar fusion

Blue Incantation by Sanjay Mishra
More than a month ago Chennai’s popular newspaper “The Hindu”, had this album reviewed and I just couldn’t wait to get my own review out although I had planned mine a long time ago.
I am not sure how many of you lived in and around Atlanta, GA around the end of [...]

Colors of India – Ganesh Kumaresh

Colours of India by Ganesh Kumaresh.
Colours of India is a fusion album that can rival some of the best fusion albums from India in the recent past. It was also my first review on my other music blog madrasbee where I review and write about music from the Indian sub-continent. If you thought Illayaraja’s “How [...]

Ready for some Indo-Swedish fusion?

“Teabreak” by Mynta
Mynta is a Swedish band. Two Indian musicians feature prominently in their line-up. Fazal Qureshi on tabla and Shankar Mahadevan on vocals and of the two Fazal Qureshi is a permanent member and Shankar guests more often. Early Mynta music and took a jazz rock direction. In 1987 when the band toured India [...]

The Godfather of all Fusion albums from India

Ananda Shankar
I have this one more album review to go before I can start writing about the ones that I thought would go first on this blog.
If Caravan’s album that I reveiwed was 35 years old how about an album that is 36 years old.
Even before the albums from Shakti (the John McLaughlin, L Shankar, [...]