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Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
Punjabi Disco
Naya Beat
This is sensational; hotly recommended.
“The holy grail of British Asian music; the album that birthed the British Asian dancefloor.”
‘Recorded in London in 1982, the nine-track album combines producer Kuljit Bhamra’s searing synthesiser melodies and hammering drum machine rhythms with the Punjabi-language folk singing of his classically trained mother, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra. Part early acid house experiment, part north Indian tradition and part disco-funk, the record was a futuristic outlier: the south Asian fusion sounds of bhangra were only just beginning; the mainstream crossover music of the Asian underground was more than a decade away; and the British Asian diaspora were largely relegated to meeting at weddings and community events, rather than at the disco’ (The Guardian).
Piercingly beautiful singing and dazzling guitar-playing.
Rivetingly authentic, rough-hewn sublimity rushes heelster-gowdie through these indelible renditions of classics like Freedom Come All Ye, Fair Flower O’ Northumberland, and the setting of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem On Raglan Road.
The great Dick Gaughan in his prime. Proper rebel music.
‘One of the dozen albums that anyone interested in the outer limits should own, or be owned by. Because it cleaves closest of Miles’ masterworks to funk groove and rock impact (Davis was trying to reach out to a young black audience), it’s easy for the jazz novice to get into. But once you’re into it, it’ll take you as far out as anything Davis (or anybody else) ever recorded’ (Simon Reynolds).
‘The first hip-hop/house/drum’n'bass/breakbeat album I’d ever heard’ (Greg Tate).
Expert, breezy version of Grover Washington’s Loran’s Dance (as sampled by A Tribe Called Quest, on Push It Along). Lovely stuff.
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