somnambulized eyes
September 2011
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Raga Lalit
Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan
Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan — Raga Lalit
from Versatile Ragas
I was in India earlier this year, and one day I dragged a friend around Delhi looking for records, CDs and mp3 DVDs at street stalls and shops. I saw this disc in a modern, HMV-style CD shop in New Delhi, and picked it up for just a few dollars.
It was a remarkable find, for this man’s voice is truly like no other. In fact, at times it sounds unlike a human voice at all. Here the vocal chords are reinvented as an entirely new instrument. The style is a modern Indian classical genre called khayal, thought to have developed from the qawwali style of singing.
‘Raga Lalit’ is an early morning raga.
Khan in 2009
Don't Be Seen With Me
Oppenheimer Analysis
Oppenheimer Analysis - “Don’t Be Seen with Me” from 1982’s New Mexico
Trivia: The two members of this band met at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton, sharing a mutual love of Cold War propaganda and early electronic music. This makes them not only excellent musicians, but my kind of nerds.