Ignorance

Placidcasual79

Excuse the above - 

I've always enjoyed the sound of sitar, tambura, tabal's etc - in music from genre's like dance, psych, prog, hip hop etc - but I wouldn't mind actually getting into some 'proper source' material - I know that's a lame and potentially offensive description... I think I am talking about Indian folk music?

Any idea's were to start? Apologies if my concept of authentic is offensive....

boogieman

Ravi Shankar is the obvious one for authentic style sitar. His daughter Anoushka is still playing but I don't know much of her material. 

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan did Qwali singing (spiritual improvised singing) with his own band. He did a really good modern style collaboration with Michael Brook called Mustt Mustt. If you want more authentic there's a good album called Devotional Songs.  


Some of John McLaughlin's work with Shakti is lovely, although that's got a modern jazz twist rather than authentic folk style. 

Thats about the the sum of my knowledge of Indian music. 

Placidcasual79

Thanks @boogieman thats more than I knew before - I'll start with Devotional songs.  

artinski

Thank you, @boogieman! I have a recording from a group named 'Talented Trio' (and they are, as far as I can tell!), I believe they are British. This thread reminds me to go and get some more authentic music of that kind. 

Veganic

Nitin Sawhney is pretty accessible.

Dunno if it counts as source in your sense.  
(The best Indian misic I ever heard was on a radio programme. The bass was MASSIVE. Never found it again. But I digress.)

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Placidcasual79

Veganic said:

Nitin Sawhney is pretty accessible.

Dunno if it counts as source in your sense.  
(The best I ever heard was on a radio programme. The bass was MASSIVE. Never found it again. But I digress.)

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Let me know if you ever find out what that was! 

Any recommendations regarding Nitin Sawhney's records? 

Veganic

Introducing... is the obvious place to start.  Probably not folky enough though.

I will have to find that other stuff. Middle of the night Public Service radio in the States, pre-google. Deep bass groove and all sorts of percussion..

Placidcasual79

Veganic said:

. Middle of the night Public Service radio in the States, pre-google. Deep bass groove and all sorts of percussion..

Sounds deeply appealing 

UnclePsychosis

A good place to start might be to check out some of the radio shows on the BBC Asian Network. 

Placidcasual79

UnclePsychosis said:

A good place to start might be to check out some of the radio shows on the BBC Asian Network. 

Yeah - I think in general I need to get a proper radio - I don't have access to 6. music which I am told is very good. 

Placidcasual79

@Veganic just been listening to some Nitin Swaheny - its good stuff - I like it - he's got some ambient/electronic stuff in there

UnclePsychosis

Placidcasual79 said:

UnclePsychosis said:

A good place to start might be to check out some of the radio shows on the BBC Asian Network. 

Yeah - I think in general I need to get a proper radio - I don't have access to 6. music which I am told is very good. 

---6music is excellent. You can always just use the online player via a browser.