Traveling: India

I've never been in India. I will. But I don't want to go there as tourist, I'd like to travel to India in the very sense of this word. For now, I can only try to learn something about the subcontinent by readings, photos and music. I chose not to include in this journey all the albums tagged India but actually dedicated to Yoga and meditation and virtually recorded everywhere else but in India.
I was looking for sounds more authentical and I found these:


This is an extremely interesting project of field recording. There's music, sounds of nature, streets, conversations directly taken during a travel through India. There are photos too. Just smell's missing.


Nice example of geographic declination of jazz. These tracks are the demonstration that playing jazz doesn't mean blindly reproducing the american sound. In this music you find classical indian inspirations, electronic, and improvisation.


And this is the same process applied to pop music. This Calcutta duo makes a strange and kind of whimsical pop music mostly in hindi, mixing Bollywood athmospheres and folk reminiscences.


Before listening to this album please follow the instructions: put on your sunglasses, get out of your closet that '80s dress that you thought you'd never never wear again and try to remember those dance steps you saw in Bollywood most sugary productions. Press play. Smile.