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chutney music

dhruva — Sun, 29 May 2005 02:40:58 -0800

Chutney Music :"For these people, Chutney was more than just music (.asf files), it was their life, it was their culture. For a people twice removed from their native land, Chutney was their connection to the traditions they might have otherwise never known." [via]

By: drakepool

drakepool — Sun, 29 May 2005 06:26:40 -0800

dhruva, 3 quality links, thank you... Every Indian I've met has had quite a few I.Q. points on me. I like Indian Movies and Rohinton Mistry blew my mind.

By: goodglovin77

goodglovin77 — Sun, 29 May 2005 12:53:54 -0800

So happy to live in a world where "Onancock" gets a gajillion more comments than this... But everyone in New York should head out to Church Avenue (at least I know you can find it there) and get a nice big goat roti and be happy they live here... and in Toronto, I don't know what you should do, but I bet you can work something out.

By: PY

PY — Sun, 29 May 2005 13:25:24 -0800

Reading about it is so interesting (thanks, dhruva) that I want to like it, but I guess I'm just not a huge fan of the rhythmic, high-energy kind of dance music in the samples I sampled. I wish I could find more of the lyrics online; songs like "This Roti Too Big" and "Jahaaji Bhai" sound intriguing. A few lines from the latter (the title seems to translate as brotherhood of the boat) from an article on dougla/chutney/soca music: If you want to know the truth take a trip back to your roots and somewhere on that journey you go see a man in a dhoti saying his prayers in front of a jhandi

By: dhruva

dhruva — Sun, 29 May 2005 19:15:49 -0800

PY: i'm not a big fan of this music too, but it was a real weird feeling to hear familiar hindi movie songs remixed and distorted in such a way.

By: arto

arto — Sun, 29 May 2005 19:32:16 -0800

I've got a feeling this music makes a lot more sense over a Carnival soundsystem than sitting in front of the computer. Kinda cool, though.

By: taz

taz — Mon, 30 May 2005 04:44:53 -0800

I love this post. Thanks very, very much, dhruva!