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I am curious as well. I saw one bad review of it but have not heard it.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's okay. Actually, I think I like the instrumentals best, aside from the first track. (I am just taking a break from being asleep, so maybe more when I am officially awake.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm a little perplexed at how little attention the CD has gotten though. Asha Bhosle isn't someone I would necessarilly expect to like anyway, but where is the music press? Did critics decide they weren't doing Asha Bhosle this year? I get the sense people with a casual interest have jumped off the Asha Bhosle band-wagon for the moment. It would be one thing if people were listening and then saying it's not that great an album, but have many people even listened to it?

(I realize it hasn't gone completely unnoticed, and it is even a Grammy nominee, but even the absence of discussion around here is curious.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 13:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

The thing is, I'd actually be more interested in what people who are somewhat into Bhosle (or even more familiar with the Kronos Quartet) think of this thing, than in what I think of it. Most of the songs have certain sub-passages I really like, but overall I am not into Bollywood, or even much Indian music,whether through a Kronos Quartet prism or not.

(I like the Mysore Nagamani Srinath recording Sundar sent though. Carnatic classical, which seems to be my the broad sub-area of Indian music I find most accessible.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 14:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I really love the Bhosle/Kronos album -- grows on me every time I hear it (especially since my mom-music defenses were up at first). One thing I like about the way Kronos plays the stuff is that I don't think they really "westernize" it so much as just "kronos-ize" it. They don't try to iron out the quirks and nuances that make it bollywood music.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Joan Jeanrenaud is doing a record release show tomorrow night -- are such things special enough to make a weeknight effort to see?

― Leee, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 02:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Anyone heard them play Reich's 9/11?

― etc, Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol @ hstencil upthread

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Aleksandra Vrebalov's "…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…" & Nicole Lizée "Death to Kosmische" were amazing.
40 year anniversary this year, wonder if Nonesuch or someone will do anything?

― etc, Monday, 11 March 2013 10:00 (3 months ago) Permalink

Saw 'em in a collaborative project with Laurie Anderson recently

― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

Saw 'em in a collaborative project with Laurie Anderson recently

How was it? I'm seeing it in May.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 02:23 (3 months ago) Permalink

I was kinda disappointed tbh. Laurie's verbiage did not really impress me, and Kronos' playing was ok but not wow-worthy.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 20:28 (3 months ago) Permalink

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