Advantages: good music Disadvantages: her playing!
i thought this was a good cd and had good music however, i do think that for the daughter of pt. ravi shankar ji she needs to improve her playing substantially. i was not satisfied with this cd and hardly listen to it. however, i would any day reccomend her other cds. this cd, with her father gave the impression to many people that she relies on her father where the fact is that she is esxtremely talented and just needs to focus. the tracks on this ...
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Advantages: interesting new idea Disadvantages: sounds awful
When i first heard of this CD i was like WOW! For the first time ever someone is playing tunes on tablas. (the western equivelent would be playing songs on loads of drum kits all tuned to different notes). I bought the cd immediately and couldnt wait to play it at home.
I must admit though, when i played it, i could have killed myself. It was sooo dreadful. the most boring and monotonous music i have ever heard. it actually featured some of my favourite ... ...in to the store and buying this. i am soo sorry for doing such a negative review but i have to get this out. Please no body ever buy this cd because like me you will become scarred for the rest of you lives! also, if you are into world music or indian music, there are hundreds of other cds, buy them, not this. even if somehow you enjoy this cd (there must be something wrong with you ;) you will get completely bored out of your mind after the first ...
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Advantages: A sublime fusion of roots and more modern music Disadvantages: Not as good as some contemporaries
This is the self-named album Kal by Kal! Kal are a Serbian band from the small village of Valjevo but are now based in Belgrade, they fuse traditional roma music with a very slight amount of pop/crooning, they are one of very few Serbian artists that still play Balkan music in the traditional sense as Serbian music is these days liittered with keyboards in general.
Kal (Romani for black) were once described by a BBC journalist in Leicester as "the ... ...spot on in this case. Kal dress in black suits and hats which instantaneously gives them a mafia look, this image is quickly broken though as they're jolly outlook on life woos the crowd where ever they are quite quickly.
The band themselves do a lot of work in Serbia to integrate the roma people in to Serbia in general through theatre productions spanning from Budapest to Belgrade and Bucharest, each year they also run a school (Amala School in ...
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Advantages: Superbly talented musicians playing good music Disadvantages: Flute irritates me sometimes
...throughout the 18th century.
Kobzar is brought out by the German record label Eastblok Music and was released in March 2008.
1 - Vstup
Is a 19 second song which I'm unaware of the point of, perhaps it has significance. 10/10 or 0/10 depending on how you look at it.
2 - Efir - 4:34
A jolly song where accordian, drumming and later trumpet features highly with a catchy chorus and impressive near orient or latino "aaah's" (if you know what I mean!) ... ...Tramvayem
Violin, trumpet and accoustic guitar heavy track to start off with yet another upbeat feeling accompanied with a bit of crooning and later gets a more funky, jazzy feel to it. Insane song to dance to. 8/10
4 - Message
Starts off with a heavy metal/hard rock style and moves into reggae with space noises plus the occasional folks instrument (possibly bagpipes) and later jazz trumpets, sang in Polish mostly due to the song being written ...
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Advantages: The antithesis of commercial rubbish. Disadvantages: Very few.
This is must buy as along with being great music is also a documentation of rarely recorded works of a fleeting genre. A number of the artists recorded have never previously been recorded at all and some are now deceased, since these recordings were made. Sufi music is Islamic in nature but has very little to do with organised religion. The music itself is not written or performed to any set standard but rather being truly folk music is passed down ... ...the genre thus evolves quite organically. These CDs concentrate on Pakistani Sufi music which grew out of Islamic mysticism that developed around the Indus river from the 8th century onwards. The content varies from deeply haunting to light-hearted to the almost surreal in Ghulam Ali Qawwal and Party's "Deewana hai Deewana". The recordings include the unsung masters Pathane Khan and Allan Fakir as well as various tribal instrumentals from Sindh and ...
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