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▀▄ Artist... sheila chandra
░ Title.... the zen kiss
Label.... real world
Year..... 1994
Genre.... Ambient
Rip Date. 06.01.2004
Tracks... 11
Ripper... 1REAL
Grabber.. EAC
Source... CDDA
Encoder.. LAME 3.90.3
Quality.. VBRkbps/44.1kHz
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"This is pretty much of a piece with her previous album
(Weaving My Ancestors' Voices), continuing her eclectic
forays into the forms and feelings of various Western
and non-Western genres, and resuming her most
avant-garde projects with the a cappella
clucking/chanting of "Speaking in Tongues" (parts three
and four). It's not a redundant repetition of the
territory laid out on Weaving My Ancestor's Voices. It's
more an extension of the mood, Chandra delving more
deeply into June Tabor-styled British folk vocals in
particular." - allmusic.com
"One of the most unusual and successful singers of the
'80s and '90s that has attempted to fuse the music of
non-Western cultures with Western pop, Sheila Chandra
began recording as a teenager in Monsoon. Of Indian
ancestry, but born and raised in Britain, Chandra took
lead vocals in the band, which pursued a sort of new
wave-tinged raga-rock along the lines of George
Harrison's explorations on Beatles tracks like "Love You
To." The combination yielded an album and an unexpected
British hit single, "Ever So Lonely," in the early '80s.
Chandra, however, felt limited by the label's pressures
for more commercial product, and signed to a small indie
label, Indipop, which she felt would offer more freedom
for her explorations as a solo artist.
In the mid-'80s, Chandra was astonishingly prolific,
releasing five solo albums over a period of about two or
three years that drifted away from the Asian dance-pop
of Monsoon into a more personal sort of world fusion.
Chandra also began to write much of her own material,
usually in collaboration with producer and husband Steve
Coe; Coe had also helped produce, write, and perform the
music in Monsoon with Martin Smith, who also assisted on
Chandra's early solo records. Indian instruments were
still usually employed, and electronic rhythm tracks
still sometimes used to guarantee some measure of
danceability and pop-rock appeal. But with increasing
frequency, Chandra was pushing herself beyond the
parameters of pop-rock with wordless pieces of both
melismatic singing and percussive mouth noises,
ambitious song cycles, interwoven overdubbed vocal
tracks, and a 27-minute track based around a raga. (Her
mid-'80s Indipop albums have been reissued in the U.S.
by Caroline.)
Chandra truly matured as an artist, however, with her
'90s albums for Peter Gabriel's Real World label
(distributed in the U.S., again, by Caroline). As proof
that adulthood doesn't have to mean tamer and more
mainstream product, these found Chandra achieving a true
world fusion that drew from Indian ragas, elements of
British folk, Middle Eastern chants, sophisticated
studio overdubs, and more vocal percussion compositions,
the last of which bordered on the downright
experimental.
Chandra and Coe were now almost solely responsible for
the music (Martin Smith no longer being an active
participant), constructing drone-like instrumental
textures to suitably complement Chandra's oft-wordless
singing. Pop and rock were hardly factors anymore;
Chandra was primarily interested in extending the limits
of vocal expression, whether applied to Indian, Spanish,
or Islamic forms, or the kind of material that could
find a suitable home in the repertoire of June Tabor or
Laurie Anderson. These recent works have firmly
established Chandra as one of the principal boundary
jumpers of contemporary music, but she's not a
dilettante, and she imbues her music with a haunting,
spiritual grace. " - allmusic.com
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01: la sagesse (women i'm calling you) - 04:29
02: speaking in tongues iii - 02:14
03: waiting - 06:03
04: shenhai song - 02:05
05: love it is a killing thing - 04:50
06: speaking in tongues iv - 04:59
07: woman and child - 03:38
08: en mireal del penal - 03:36
09: a sailor's life - 04:22
10: abbess hildegard - 03:27
11: kafi noir - 06:47
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