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BobbyZ
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« on: 21:42:31, 10-08-2007 »
A bit bland innit ( first half ) ? Working Week did this sort of thing better in the eighties. Let's hope it perks up with Anoushka Shankar later on.
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« Reply #1 on: 21:56:19, 10-08-2007 »
Sorry Bobby, but I have severe doubts she will. Sad
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« Reply #2 on: 23:31:58, 10-08-2007 »
How indeed can a talented musician like sawnhey be content to present largely mediocre hackwork like this-if he had a deadline for the whole show it'd be understandable, but to suggest this has much to do with inherited musical wisdom would have a whiff of RW about it as a conceit. Some of his orchestrations have a bit of Neil Richardson about them (a plus) and his musicians are superb, which may
explain the odd pearl amidst the dreck (on this evidence when he sticks closest to some element of Indian classical musical line/ harmony). Duran intoning without irony -perhaps she speaks for a sub-culture who don't conceive of it-that one of the pieces was written for a computer game,presumbly the keystone cops sequence now playing-pretty much sum sit up.The pity of it is that Sawhney has the chops to so so,somuch better-this is a disturbingly crass  travesty of his talent.Why oh why guys?
Excuse the rant, I have had a crap eveningin part,and this is the tin lid therupon.
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« Reply #3 on: 23:38:53, 10-08-2007 »
Listened to a bit, and bought a couple of his solo albums. Disappointment. I was/am a bit of a fan of Asian Dub Foundation. But to me, it's a bit like the all-too-obvious deterioation and decline which respectively beset the work of Lennon and Macca, post-Beatles. No doubting the talent; but it seems to have been dependent on genuine collaboration rather than wheeling in a few names for the day.
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« Reply #4 on: 11:45:40, 11-08-2007 »
Knowing nothing of Sawhney's work, I listened for 20 minutes in the car (yes, I know, not fair). I found it all desperately bland. If a scholar unearthed music of that quality written by an unknown composer in (say) 1850, I am almost sure it would have been left on the shelf gathering dust.
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