MIDIval PunditZ show!
Have been playing a lot of the MIDIval PunditZ lately. Really exciting to know they are gonna be in Houston, thanks to the efforts of Yogi and Alx at Generasian Radio.
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Concert
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, along with sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, perform at a benefit concert for ASHA for India and AID.
Location: Cullen Performance Hall, University of Houston
Date: Saturday, September 10, 2005
Time: 7pm
Ticket and information: Notes of Hope
Program for Aug 28, 2005
Program for Aug 14, 2005
Independence day for India tomorrow (and Pakistan, today). So a few patriotic Indian songs thrown into the mix. Lata Mangeshkar’s ‘Aye Mere Vatan‘ is a total classic, but the one that stirs my soul up the most is AR Rahman’s ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam‘. And a nice instrumental rendering of ‘Jana Gana Mana‘, the Indian national anthem, to round off the show.
Program for Aug 7, 2005
Program for July 31, 2005
Mostly old favorites today, nothing too new. Need to do that, sometimes!
Program for July 24, 2005
Couple of brand-new tracks: Rebirth by MIDIval PunditZ, from their brand-new album MIDIval Times. The track features some awesome sitaring by Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the one and only Pandit Ravi Shankar. Another one is Ghazal by Niyaz from their self-titled album. And of course, the evergreen Asha Bhosle with track Rafta Rafta from Asha, her brand-new album. This one’s a rendering of the famous ghazal by Ghulam Ali. IMHO, she shouldn’t mess around with classic ghazals, though, her stupendous voice lacks an essential quality for ghazals: nashaa (intoxication), but that’s just me 🙂
Program for July 17, 2005
Lots of relatively slower bollywood songs, and more lounge-y music today. I guess that’s in accordance with the mental makeup of a DJ after 3 hours of sleep, following a late drinking/dancing night! 🙂
Program for July 10, 2005
Some interesting new stuff: a chutney track called Dhania Remix by The Juniors from Surinam. Chutney is an interesting genre originating from the caribbean, from the desi community who were originally brought from Bihar, India as labour. The music is really crazy, with high-energy calypso and soca beats set to very folksy Indian tunes and lyrics.
Other than that, a cool hip-hop track by Karmacy (Music Knows from The Movement), with sitar and tabla backdrops.
Turntablas on the Bayou: Fusian Friday 7/8/2005
Generasian radio is a weekly 2-hour (Thu 3:30-5:30pm) radio show of Asian (in the British sense i.e. South Asian 🙂 underground and fusion music, hosted on KPFT 90.1FM. They have local DJs spinning their stuff at club events every now and then, called Turntablas on the Bayou. There’s one this Friday at The Social (21+, no cover), in addition to a live tabla and belly dance performance.
And here’s an addition from fellow KTRU DJ Scott Novich.
“SDF3 is spinning at that — wicked DJ. He runs Atomic — we’ve had him in at the MK-Ultra show a few times…you should all check it for sure”.
