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LIVING ROOM CONCERTS:
Echoes of India

Indian music seems to be in the air once again. Between mantra chant CDs and techno-Indian sounds like the Midival Punditz, the twang and drone of India is everywhere.

So there's no better time to take a passage to India with some Echoes Living Room Concerts from the archive that highlight Indian music. In this collection we hear musicians expanding their musical horizons while maintaining fidelity to their traditions.

John Diliberto

Sheila Chandra
(1993)
In 1983 at the age of 16, Sheila Chandra had a U.K. hit with "Ever So Lonely" in a group called Monsoon. Ten years later, she'd developed a mature
vocal sound based in Indian raga but embracing Celtic melodies and middle eastern ornamentation. In the spring of 1993, at her home in the southwest of England, Sheila Chandra sang her unique synthesis of women's vocal traditions over a backdrop of Indian drones crafted by her longtime collaborator Steve Coe.

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Drala
(2002)
The world music ensemble, Drala, performs live on Echoes.
Drala is David Nichtern and Steve Gorn. Nichtern is a noted composer and guitarist best known for writing the Maria Muldaur hit "Midnight at the Oasis" and for an extensive list of session work. Steve Gorn has lent his serene bansuri flute sounds to everyone from Paul Simon to percussionist Glen Velez. As Drala, they sculpt a modal, meditative sound. With the addition of electric bass and Indian tabla, Drala performs music from their self-titled debut on Dharma Moon, live on Echoes.

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Habib Khan
(2001)
Habib Khan comes from a long line of Indian sitar players, but he's taken his sitar to San Jose where he's fallen in with a host of San Francisco Bay Area world fusionists. There's he mixes his sitar in with guitarists, keyboard players and violinists in an Indian fusion that's heard on his latest album Longing. In the living room of his San Jose home, Habib Khan opens up a world of exotic sound performing with a six piece ensemble.

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Rasa
(2006)
Rasa is multi-instrumentalist Hans Christian and singer Kim Waters. Christian weaves Indian percussion, cello, nyckleharpes and sarangis around Waters' silky voice, which soothes like a cosmic whisper. In the Echoes Living Room, they bring ancient Indian Bhajans, sacred songs and hymns from their CD Saffron Blue, to modern life.

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