India's madcap Bollywood filmi songs have become pretty familiar to Western ears lately, but India's neighbor to the north, Pakistan, apparently had their own musicals-obsessed film industry. The thoroughly delightful new comp The Sound of Wonder! highlights this weird world of '70s Moog/ lounge/cheesy/sleazy/disco. These songs are similiar to Bollywood fare, but without the ubiquitous female voices of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, who seem to do every single filmi female vocal part. I didn't realize how integral those two were to Bollywood's sound until I heard this collection - I kept waiting for those high-pitched voices to come in. Instead we get a suave male singing about playboys, an apologetic female mournfully telling some fella "I am vedy sorryyyyy," and this twangy guitar/ accordian/ scat-singing nutty nugget. The funniest part is when the flatulant Moog comes in.
Tafo (feat. Nahid Akhtar) - Karya Pyar
Listen to those Amazon sound samples. See? Am I lying?!
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5 comments:
haha this is good man, btw bollywood isnt all asha bhosle
allow me to demonstrate ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MoiXo55BI
That was great!
I was LOL-ing out loud.
This is awesome. I just noticed that my station has this in heavy rotation right now :)
Song of the week!!
Yeah its a great lollywood comp highly recommended
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