SITAR IN POP MUSIC 70's-90's

70'S STYLE SITAR FUSIONS AND RAGA ROCK

Some Krautrock items I used already in the first radio program with fusions

Pink Elephant Shocking Blue : At Home (NL,1969)

Tr.3 "Acka Raga" 3 min

Tr.B3, "Love Buzz" 4 min

Pink Elephant Shocking Blue : Scorpio Dance (1970)

Tr.10 "Water Boy" 3 min

Web pages : http://members.primary.net/~gregoryo/shockingblue.html

http://www.geocities.com/ofmang/greg/shockblu.html

http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/4138/shblnew/shblnew.html

And at http://www.muziekbase.com/ : Shocking Blue

(Some lyrics at http://home.t-online.de/home/walterv/shock_bl.htm#venus)

Lost Vinyl

Gualberto. A la vida-Al Dolor. (SP,1975)

Gualberto came from the flamenco rock group Smash.

First album is flamenco rock. Second instrumental flamenco rock and progressive. Not easy in the original order of tracks, but really great. I didn't hear his unreleased third album which should be in style and is released by Acetato Records. Later work went back to the roots of flamenco but there he used definitiveley the sitar in replacement of the flamenco guitar. My seperate page about Gualberto you find when you click here.

Background Hurdy Gurdy (DN,1971)

Track 4,"Peacefull open Space" 5 min

A track with sitar, for the rest heavy prog blues rock.

Kuckuck Deuter : D(D,1971)

Track 3, Krishna eating Fish and Ships" 10 min

Deuter's first album is progressive. All the rest is more New Age inspired (also due to his interest towards Osho).Purple Lant.R.

A few of the items listed here I used in a radio program on May 16th. You can see its playlist here.

El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 6,

Tr.16, Catharsis : "Melba" 4 minDREAMY :

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 1,

Track 1, Ray Brown & Moonstone : "Story of Ali" 4 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Tr 16, Ray Brown & Moonstone : "Start of a new day"3 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 1,

Track 18, Ramases : "Molecular Delusion" 4 min

A web page : http://www.new.co.za/~currin/spacehymns.html

And a bit information at : http://www.gepr.net/rafram.html

A Tschechien page : http://lege.cz/hudba/ramases.htm

Only one track has sitar.

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 4,

Tr.7, Nick Carter : "Prayer for St.Peter" 5 min

Purple Lant.R.

El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 4,

Tr.13, Kuni Kawachi & The Flower Travelling Band :

"Graveyard of Love" 4 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 4,

Tr.14.Full Moon Band : "Morning is born" 4 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 5,

Tr.7, Elyse Weinberg : "Oh deed I do" 3 min

Sitar by Collin Walcott. A bit psychedelic folk item.

(Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 5,

Tr.18, Kali Bahlu : "How can I tell my Guru"7 min)

Purple Lant.R.

El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 6,

Tr.17, The Fallen Angels : I'll drive you from my mind" 5 min

Much more items will get attention later :

Shocking Blue, Maureeny Wishfull Album, etc....

Quintessence : http://www.mooncowhq.ch/Psychedelia.htm/Psychedelia_htm.htm

(PSYCHEDELIC) FOLK/SINGER SONGWRITERS :

Wizz Jones, John Martyn,The Pentangle, John Renbourn, Chris Thompson, Cary John & Tony, Bouwdewijn De Groot, Fit & Limo, and several others are going to belisted elsewhere. Later I will at least add there names and nice sitar tracks here too.

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 6,

Tr.15, The Click : "Many times Jimbo" 4 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 1,

Track 7, Bröselmachine : "La Rotta" 4 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 1,

Track 16, Fraternity of Man : "Wispy Paisly Skies" 3 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Track 5, Meic Stevens : The sailer & Madonna" 6 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Tr.7, Meic Stevens : "Yorric" 9 min sspf

Meic Stevens most of his albums are in Welsh. A few are in english and are very good collector items of more psychedelic folk singer songwriting. Two tracks on "Outlander" were cooperations with John Mayer and are wonderful sitar psych tracks.

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Track 6, The Ghost : "Abyssinia" 3 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Track 10, Sagram : "Heavenly Feeling" 5 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Tr.15, Sally Eaton : "Flowers in the air" 6 min)

90'S :

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 5,

Tr.1, The Book of AM : "I am that living soul" 4 min

Purple Lant.R.

El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 2,

Tr.5, Saffron : "All your ambition" 5 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 5,

Tr.5, Saffron : "Vision is a lonely word" 4 min

Purple Lant.R. El.Psych.sitar Headwirlers vol 5,

Tr.8, Calendula : "Dance of the red Moon" 4 minThis list is also far from complete. Many more items must be added later : Ghost, The Changelings, Adam, C

Cosmic Kraut Experience...

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Saturnia (Portugal)

Tr.1, "Crysallis" 5 min

Mostly I never like so much the new psychedelic trance like music so much, but this music is very clear, and I get the feeling it mostly has a real meditative content too and not just melodic entertainment or psychedelic infinite waves without much structure. So it is great and it contains a warm atmosphere. E-mail at saturnia@mail.telepac.pt

Web site at http://www.fortunecity.com/athena/motherhood/208/

and http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/lounge/6263/

Reviewed at the Portuguese progressive music pages.

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The Realm of Raga Rock (1998)

Track 8, "Sky Axe" 14 min

Very relaxing raga fusion.

Web site at http://ragarock.com/

related Ragarock guitarist Guz Buzbee :

http://members.aol.com/gusbuzbee/ and http://www.skyaxe1.com/

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