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Najma Akhtar & Gary Lucas Rishte

General Info

  • Genre: Blues / Other / Psychedelic

    Location London and South East, UK

    Profile Views: 25508

    Last Login: 5/19/2010

    Member Since 5/7/2009

    Website www.worldvillagemusic.com

    Record Label World Village

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. When Najma met Gary there was no plan. Najma knew and respected Gary’s work with Jeff Buckley (he coauthored Grace) and Gary had loved Najma’s ethereal vocal collaboration with Page and Plant. A couple of gigs later Gary produced the music (including some songs originally written for Buckley) and Najma nailed the words and the melodies for their first album, Rishte. And in the process a beautiful and curious transformation has occurred... .. There is blues in the mix - in particular the eerie revival of the Skip James classic Special Rider Blues (Gary’s also a Beefheart alumnus) and there’s Indian music too, as expected (both Daaya and Parda are based on Ghazal styles). But out of this chrysalis of expectation has burst a butterfly whose wings drip psychedelic jewels. A dark and heady funk and fey folk evocations jostle in the powerful title track and a powerful pop sensibility underpins everything. It would be easy to apply simplistic marketing jargon to the music of Rishte: Indo-Blues fusion, east-meets-west and the like. But this is to misunderstand the alchemy that occurred when Gary met Najma - a rare confluence of interests, talents and cosmic synchronicities that have produced an album which is truly more than the sum of its parts: a unique and pungent fusion... .. .. PRESS .. Please contact Mike Gavin .. mgavin@harmoniamundi.com .. 020 7732 9658.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..................Try the ..BEST.. ..MySpace Editor.. and ..MySpace Backgrounds.. at ..MySpace.... Toolbox..! ............Generate your own contact table!.... .. .. .. .. To sign up to the World Village UK New Release mailing list, please use the form below. .. .. .. ..Name:........ ..Email:........ .. .. ..
  • Members

    .. Najma Akhtar - vocals;.. .. Gary Lucas - guitars; .. .. Nitin Mitta - tabla (tracks 1,5,3,8); .. .. Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla (tracks 2,4,6,7,9); .. .. Alicia Svigals - violin (tracks 7,9). .. .. ..CLICK BELOW TO BUY THE ALBUM ON iTUNES.. .. .... .. .. ..CLICK BELOW TO BUY THE ALBUM ON AMAZON.CO.UK.. .. ....
  • Influences

    Froots June 09..Mojo June 09..
  • Sounds Like

    indo-folk-blues-psyche

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  • David Clapp

    Najma Akhtar

    1 year ago
  • Aftab Gulab

    Thanks for friendship amazing music 

    1 year ago
  • Janbernes

    Hi Najma ! Thaks for your friendship ! Welcome on my page .

    I love your Songs , with amazing music and so beautiful Voice .

    My best wishes ,

    Jean-Bernard

    2 years ago
  • Lorraine A. Springer


    Hello,How do you do?

    2 years ago
  • Lorraine A. Springer


    Hello,thanks add!

    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
  • Eddy Sayer

    Looking forward to your Jazz Cafe Performance
    Spirit of Lotus



    2 years ago
  • Chris Audren

    ..Bonjour Najma !
    I only knew a part of your work...and deeply loved it...and just decided to get all the albums I didn'nt know, yesterday...
    I love your voice...and all the music I knew so far...
    I hope you will get to my music too...
    Greetings from France !

    Chris

    www.chrisaudren.com

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    3 years ago
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Bio:

When Najma met Gary there was no plan. Najma knew and respected Gary’s work with Jeff Buckley (he coauthored Grace) and Gary had loved Najma’s ethereal vocal collaboration with Page and Plant. A couple of gigs later Gary produced the music (including some songs originally written for Buckley) and Najma nailed the words and the melodies for their first album, Rishte. And in the process a beautiful and curious transformation has occurred.

There is blues in the mix - in particular the eerie revival of the Skip James classic Special Rider Blues (Gary’s also a Beefheart alumnus) and there’s Indian music too, as expected (both Daaya and Parda are based on Ghazal styles). But out of this chrysalis of expectation has burst a butterfly whose wings drip psychedelic jewels. A dark and heady funk and fey folk evocations jostle in the powerful title track and a powerful pop sensibility underpins everything. It would be easy to apply simplistic marketing jargon to the music of Rishte: Indo-Blues fusion, east-meets-west and the like. But this is to misunderstand the alchemy that occurred when Gary met Najma - a rare confluence of interests, talents and cosmic synchronicities that have produced an album which is truly more than the sum of its parts: a unique and pungent fusion.


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Member Since:

May 07, 2009

Members:

Najma Akhtar - vocals;

Gary Lucas - guitars;

Nitin Mitta - tabla (tracks 1,5,3,8);

Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla (tracks 2,4,6,7,9);

Alicia Svigals - violin (tracks 7,9).

CLICK BELOW TO BUY THE ALBUM ON iTUNES Buy On iTunes

CLICK BELOW TO BUY THE ALBUM ON AMAZON.CO.UK Buy On Amazon

Influences:

Froots June 09FRootsMojo June 09Mojo

Sounds Like:

indo-folk-blues-psyche

Record Label:

World Village

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