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Artist:	ROY, DILIP
Title:	Namaskaar: Melodies From India
Label:	CLOUD FOREST (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CFR 404CD

"Rare 1983 album by Dilip Roy, arranger and orchestra leader for virtually all of Ananda Shankar's recordings and very much in keeping with the beat-friendly, sitar-rich sound of those self-same albums. It has excellent themes -- silken, moody, and exotic -- with sitar (reputedly played by Ananda) coupled with electric guitars, synthesizers, flute, vibes, organ, some strange and wonderful percussion that should make DJ's smile, and strings (yes, as in string section). Amazing, ambitious, complex, and trippy, in a groovy sort of way. The music blends traditional Indian instrumentation with a bit of Western-styled ambiance, all flowing in a flowing sort of way like some lost groovy soundtrack. Why has no one heard of this record? that's easy -- because it was pressed up and sold only on Air India flights as an aural souvenir of their homeland!" Instrumentation includes: Flute, santoor, violin, sitar, sarod, mandolin, guitar, organ, synthesizer, vibrophone, veena, tabla & dholak, mridangam, drums, thumba and percussion.

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