#3627: Cross Cultural Music From the Indian Subcontinent

For this New Sounds, hear a blend of western music & musicians with singers and instrumentalists from the Indian subcontinent; North and South India and/or Pakistan. Most unexpectedly, there’s a recently issued record, recorded in the late 1990’s, by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo of Duran Duran, Frank Zappa and Missing Persons fame together with the late Hindustani classical singer and sarangi (Indian box cello) player Ustad Sultan Khan. Then, listen to music from the late, great Pakistani Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, in collaboration with Canadian Michael Brook. Also, hear music from the South-Indian born American-based double-necked 10 string electric violinist and composer, L. Shankar.

Plus, music from Peter Gabriel’s “Passion,” which was intended to be used in the film “The Last Temptation of Christ.” However, Gabriel continued to record and revise after the release of the film, resulting in this stand-alone album (and sources.) We’ll hear the title track, “Passion,” containing both the expressive double electric violin of L. Shankar, and the fantastic vocals of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, as well as vocals by the Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour. That, and more.

PROGRAM #3627 Cross Cultural Music from the Indian subcontinent (First aired on 8/13/2014)