Talvin Singh and Niladri Kumar: Together

(World Village)This is an intriguing meeting of two virtuosos who have each set out to shake up the Asian music scene. The tabla percussionist, producer, composer and electronica exponent Talvin Singh won a Mercury prize more than a decade ago, and has worked with everyone from Madonna to Massive Attack, while Niladri Kumar is a classically trained sitar player who also invented the zitar, a mix of sitar and guitar. Together is a series of often free-wheeling instrumental pieces in which the du...

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