Talvin Singh - Ok (1998)

Posted By: frangarbla
Date: Sept. 22, 2010

Talvin Singh - Ok
DbPowerAmp secure mode FLAC (tracks+log, no cue) + MP3 (320 kbps CBR) | 416.19 Mb (FLAC) + 141.79 Mb (MP3) | 60:45 minutes | Covers.
electronic, fusion, world | Island records. Recorded in London, Okinawa, Mumbai, Madras & New York during 1998.


OK is one phrase that's universally known and understood, and on OK Talvin Singh tries for a similar global connection. A classically trained tabla player, he's performed with Björk and Massive Attack, holds his own club nights in London, and is the leading light of the burgeoning Asian Underground movement--in other words, a man of many parts. He brings them all together here--the Bollywood strings, the kannakol patterns of Indian music, and the skittering rhythms of drum & bass and jungle--to create something that is new and thoroughly vibrant. This is Britain at the millennium, drawing on its immigrants, full of Eastern promise, and ready to dive headlong into the future. An album of both intelligence and passion, it is more than OK; it's a complete marvel. Fusions of Indian music and Western dance have generally been lumped under the catch-all term "Bhangra" (actually a specific style of popular dance music traditionally associated with wedding parties in Pakistan and Northern India). However, tabla player Talvin Singh's solo debut OK shares a much stronger affinity with the musical structure of a classical Indian raga. Singh doesn't simply add Western club beats behind previously existing Indian music through sampling or remixing. Rather, he exploits the inherent tendencies of "intelligent" drum-and-bass and classical Indian music (ethereal chords and complex time signatures respectively) to find a natural point of intersection between the two, thereby developing an entirely new style. Much more than any contemporaneous examples of "world-dance," this style recalls the fusion tablaist Badal Roy explored on records like Miles Davis' ON THE CORNER. OK echoes those notorious sessions of Miles' fusion era not only in its moments of brilliance and spirit of unedited improvisation, but also in the occasional self-indulgent mess. But while much of the material here cries out for editing, it also retains Miles' capacity to open countless new doors for the genres of music it touches...

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Talvin Singh: tablas, drums, keyboards, programming, piano, percussion, gong, sound effects, vocals & scratches
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John Klein, Aziz Abrahim & Dhiren Raichura: guitar
Bill Laswell: bass
Guy Sigsworth: keyboards & sound effects
Byron Wallace: trumpet
Naveen: flute & pipes
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Rakesh Churasia: flute
Chandrashekar: electric violin
Madras Philharmonic Orchestra: strings
Ajay Naidu, Cleveland Watkiss, Shankar Mahadevan, Bhairvi, Nenes, Suchitra Pillais, Vaijanthi-Limaye Sumati Antroliikat Purinama Shah, Archana, Arpaha, Karti Jyotsina & Hardikar B Vijayalakshumi: background vocals

01. Traveller (11:18)
02. Butterfly (4:26)
03. Sutrix (5:55)
04. Mombasstic (5:45)
05. Decca (1:20)
06. Eclipse (5:50)
07. Ok (4:19)
08. Light (6:23)
09. Dieser Point.Mento.B (2:43)
10. Soni (5:59)
11. Vikram The Vampire (6:47)

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