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Kamaal Khan, Suneeta Rao and Lata Mangeshkar co-exist in Indian Smash Hits, an uneven compilation of TV countdown numbers More
Asha ahaha asha ahaha ...
Asha Bhonsle, featured in HMV Legends, started out singing vamp numbers, graduated to heroine songs, and then grew into Hindi cinema's most versatile voice More
Harping on pagan magic
In Calman the Dove the harp blends with fiddles and whistles and conjures up magical passages. Celtic folk star Savourna is now on tape More
'Old as the hills and new as today'
Chitti Babu composed evocative themes, departing boldy from traditional ragas and adapting Western harmony and counterpoint. Sadly, cinema and theatre didn't exploit his brilliant visual imagination
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The sitar's flower power years
Pandit Ravi Shankar's 1960s concerts are back in a sensitively remastered retrospective
More Kabir in the time of Kargil
Madhup Mudgal, disciple of Kumar Gandharva, creates new tunes for the mystical songs of Kabir More Pump up the beat!
Party time is the best time to play Solid Hits. That's when people want something playing in the background, and don't pay much attention to it More Story from a troubled era
Deepa Mehta's 1947 Earth is set in Partition days. Rahman makes some slow tunes, but it isn't quite period music
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A Jnanpith winner's opus on celluloid
Girish Karnad and B V Karanth, who pioneered experimental Kannada cinema in the 1970s, team up again for a film based on Kuvempu's grand novel Kaanuru Heggadithi More
Rock and roll with Bach and Vivaldi
It's like singing Kishore Kumar songs in the dhrupad style!
Beatles go Baroque gives you a whacky idea of how the cult group would have sounded 300 years ago
More A woman among the ustads
What's it like to be a woman tabla player? Ask Dr Aban Mistry
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The eclipse throws up stars Grahan introduces two new stars to Hindi filmdom, southern music director Karthik Raja and model turned actress Anuradha
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Music is more than mere entertainment. When its power of dissent scares clergy and governments, they try to stifle it. Smashed Hits breaks the silence on music censorship, and says the market economy's greed is now killing unconventional music
Miles Davis tells you how to love jazzily in Love Songs
