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unusual facts about Indian Music



Anand Krishna

Besides his own contribution in the fields of Indian painting, sculpture and decorative ‘minor’ arts, he has significantly contributed to the world of Indian music.

Gaana.com

The entire Indian music catalog is available to users worldwide, but only users in India have access to international music.

James Barralet

He is also known for his collaboration with Indian music artists, and as a chamber musician is the cellist of the Leondari Ensemble and the Werther Ensemble.

Voofa

He quickly gained popularity with his freestyle Hindi rap song "India Against Corruption" with his independent album, KORRUPT, which hit the Top 10 on Indian Music Chartbuster.


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64 Spoons

As a project partner, he’s played with the jazz/songwriter/Indian music project Dizrhythmia (with Danny Thompson, Gavin Harrison and Pandit Dinesh ), the Henry Cow spin-off project The Lodge (with John Greaves and Peter Blegvad) and the British progressive rock band The Tangent.

A. H. Fox Strangways

After a career as a schoolmaster, Fox Strangways developed an interest in Indian music, and in the years before the First World War he did much to bring Rabindranath Tagore to wider attention.

Basavaraj Rajguru

His repertoire ranged from the pure classical, Dhrupad to Vachanas, Natyageet, Thumri, and Ghazal (different styles of Indian music) spanning eight languages.

CHNM-DT

A leather-clad Sikh motorcyclist who boards his bike to the Channel M jingle, arranged and performed in a style mixing ZZ Top-style blues rock with East Indian music

Dave Pietro

Dave also studies East Indian music and has performed with various groups led by Indian tablist Sandip Burman.

Garaj Mahal

Garaj Mahal is a four piece band, based in the United States, playing a fusion of jazz, Indian music, rock, and especially funk: Kai Eckhardt (bass), Fareed Haque (guitars), Alan Hertz (drums), Sean Rickman (drums) and Eric Levy (keys).

Jerry Amaldev

Before that, he used to work as assistant to the great Indian Music Director Naushad.

Mamiboys

Other film contributions of Mamiboys includes the rap vocals in the song, "Bindaas" from the Telugu Film "Bindaas" composed by Indian music producer, Bobo Shashi starring Manoj Manchu and Sheena Shahabadi which was released in India on February 5, 2010.

Padmâvatî

The composer was inspired by his visit to the ruined city of Chittor in Rajputana (now Rajasthan) and he incorporated many features of Indian music into the score.

Rajeev Taranath

He has also served as the head of the Indian music program at the World Music Department of the California Institute of the Arts from 1995 to 2005.

Sargam

Swara, a way of assigning syllables to pitches in Indian music

Sitar

Psychedelic music bands often used new recording techniques and effects and drew on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music.

The Down Troddence

Munz, Nezer and Ganesh shifted to Bangalore, while Sushin moved to Chennai to work as the studio programmer for famed South Indian music director Deepak Dev.

The Funkees

They moved to London in 1973 and quickly gained prominence in the West African and West Indian music scene, before fragmenting four years later.

Umanath Bali

Rai Rajeswar Bali,along with Rai Umanath Bali and Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, founded an institution for Indian music in Lucknow now known as Bhatkhande Music Institute University.