Indian/Pakistani Folk Music

I have but one record that falls into this genre but I very much enjoy it
Devashish Bhattacharya Plays the lap slide guitar - brilliant stuff.

Also for Indian inspired/influenced you can’t go wrong with Nitin Sawhney

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Hi Charles. I’d be very interested to listen to one of those 1950’s recordings you mention. Is there one you would recommend as a good introduction from those artists you mention?

This latest release from Arooj Aftab is getting a lot of rotation for me. Traditional and modern styles, she sings in her native tongue and in English. I find it thoroughly enchanting.

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Beautiful missed out on a vinyl copy but hopefully a repress should come out soon.

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I bought this LP in the 90s and played it to death. I recently managed to find a CD version, which had a couple of extra tracks. Beautiful music and well recorded:

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Listening to this earlier release of hers also very good. New age it is not. Sometimes Roons/Qobuz tagging are just plain wrong.

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Cerys played this on 6music today. Absolutely divine. Some interesting background on the source material. Says she’s going to get her on for an interview soon.

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Got that on right now. Very nice.

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