KTK66: SIMRAN SADHNA (vol 12)

Ladies and gentlemen, back to India today to continue our trip over Sikh music. This time we'll get more conventional and devotional with SIMRAN SADHNA vol 12 (Amrit Kirtan A.K.011 from mid 90's).

Today, we'll get in trance with this surprising tape: some repetitive lyrics that goes on and on and on, some men «chorus» vocals, a lead singer and percussions... 

It's quite strange to notice how far the gross cover design is from the music. Enough said for today... Have a nice trip!

TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
SIDE B

The creepy illustrations exerpts

are by Mehar Singh.

KTK65: MALKIT SINGH: JIND MAHI DEE

SURPRISINGLY THIS TAPE WAS UNDER COPYRIGHT AND I'VE BEEN ASKED TO REMOVE IT SO IT WON'T BE AVAILABLE ANYMORE HERE. APOLOGIES TO THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. I HOPE THIS POST WILL HAVE HELP SOME OF YOU TO DISCOVER THE WORK OF  MALKIT SINGH.

Ladies & gentlemen, guess what? We're now in Birmigham, England, where the Indo-Pakistanese community is well represented off course the Sikhs too. After the Bollywood vibes from last week, we'll get something more in the mood of Bhangra with MALKIT SINGH GOLDEN STAR: JIND MAHI DEE (HMV 3/89 from 1989).

Just as last week, the prayers are turned into modern dancy songs, this time with an 80's Bhangra feeling! Great vocals from Malkit Singh, men and women backing vocals, lots of synth and percussions!

A good tape even if it can get a little "cheesy" sometimes. I really doubt you'll resist dance along! «hoooo hoooo, haaa haaa...».

TRACKLIST: (not available anymore)
01 THANEDAAR DA KUKKAR
02 DOWAIN NACHAIN
03 CHOBRAN CH TERE CHARCHAY
04 LUTTAY GAYE
05 BULLEH SHAH JIND MAHI DEE
06 HAAN DEE KURRI
07 LIFE'S BORING
08 PUNJABI MUN PAWE BHANGRA

 Thanks for flying with KTK

KTK64: PATTA PATTA SINGHAN DA VAIRI

Ladies & gentlemen, get ready to fly a lot this month as we're going to move around quite often! Though we'll focus on religious Sikh music we'll get some very different music styles on tapes from various places around the globe.
If Sikhism represent a very small part of the people in India, it's adepts travels pretty well,  you can found them in many countries.

We'll start this trip in Punjab (north of India) with PATTA PATTA SINGHAN DA VAIRI (Music Bank MBC1099 from early 90's).

The tape we got today will remind those who fly with us quite often of the Bollywoodian music we got a few months ago, bold vocals, heavy indian style percussions and tablas, harmonium, flutes, synth... of course the lyrics are deeply religious but most of us won't understand anything. Anyway, it's a pretty good tape!

TRACKLIST:
01 BAJAN WALA WAJAN
02 PATTA PATTA SINGHAN
03 KALJIDHAR IDE SHER
04 SINGH SOORME
05 NA DHUP RHENI NA
06 NA JINDE MAAN KARIN
07 HE KEE HOI KAMAAL
08 KALAM RON LAGG

See you next week for something very different.

 The typographic collages (in English and Punjabi) 

are from a Sikh book called 

«Priceless Jewels» (from 1995)

KTK63: LES KAVEKA - DANSEZ LE TAMOURE

Ladies & gentlemen, it's our last day in Tahiti and like in the previous posts we'll get some 60's Tamouré.

If the last week we got some exemples of the influences of occidental music to the local songs this time the influences are tahitian and their music starts to invade Europe with LES KAVEKA - DANSEZ LE TAMOURE (Disques Vogue EPL.8049 from 1962).

The Ep we get today is the perfect exemple of the influences going on both side as we get some tahitian tunes played by a parisian/tahitian band. in the 60's this kind of music was all the rage in Europe and you can find (horrible) covers of the genre in many exotic countries such as Poland, Germany... (even in local language).

Les Kaveka released a bunch of Ep's and set the parisian nights on fire with some furious Tamouré. Not the most authentical music we ever get here but a good exemple of the spreading of the polynesian culture, 4 tracks, 3 in tahitian and 1 in french mixing influences from rock & roll and french yéyé to tahitian modern folk songs, quite enjoyable!

TRACKLIST:
01 POTII MOOREA
02 TAMOURE VINI VINI
03 ELLE EST PARTIE DANSER LE TAMOURE
04 AUE UA REKA

 

 It's time to go,

get ready for another trip!!!