The Bollywood Brass Band & Rafaqat Ali Khan
Release Date: 02 April 2012
Label: Felmay
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 885016817725
Genres: World Music India & Pakistan
Description
For their fourth CD, the Bollywood Brass Band is joined by singer Rafaqat Ali Khan and a string section to pay tribute to 60 years of Indian and Pakistani film soundtracks.
The Bollywood Brass Band includes some of London's most versatile musicians, also to be heard with bands including Transglobal Underground and The Dhol Foundation. In the world they create, the sound of Indian movies meets wedding brass band music and Indian pop. The range of instruments is audacious: saxes, trumpets, trombones, flute, sousaphone, dhol, dholak, tabla, drumkit, surdo, percussion. The added soundscape of samples and a string section provide a glowing setting for the golden voice of Rafaqat Ali Khan. The nephew of Pakistan's greatest classical singer, Salamat Ali Khan, he brings his classical heritage to film soundtracks and popular music, while staying true to his Sufi soul.
On 'Chaiyya Chaiyya', the band and Rafaqat Ali Khan present a varied selection of Bollywood classics from the 1950s to the present day. All time superhits by AR Rahman, RD Burman and 70's funk heroes Kalyanji-Anandji rub shoulders with the latest floorfillers.
Tracklisting
Bellanöva
Gochag Askarov
Various
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Elena Ledda
Frank London
Birkin Tree & Aoife Ni Bhriain
Tiziano Tononi & Paha Sapa Ensemble
Kuljit Bhamra
Fareeha Anwar
Jason Singh & The Banwasi Collective
Various Artists
Debashish Bhattacharya
Khiyo
Harpreet Bansal, Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Various Artists
