Broken English is the third album from Karsh Kale to be reviewed by Asian Melodies. It's quite obvious that KK is one of our favourite artists and I'm happy to tell you that this is again a very good album!
Broken English is yet again music that connects West and East. Global electronic music. Karsh Kale's music is perfect fusion. Sometimes listening to other artists, I feel that West and East is connected violently in their music. They don't blend together. Karsh Kale doesn't have that problem.
For example second track on this album, Dancing At Sunset. There's modern beats with nice guitar tunes mixed with percussion and tabla drums. Vocals in English and Indian? only makes it more perfect. Even better example is Beautiful (unfortunately there's only mix version available), which is one of the greatest tracks in Asian-British scene! It's just so tender and sweet that I don't understand why I haven't heard it so far from the radio. Compared to Punjabi MC's tracks, its also definitely worth playing in Western music radio channels. Beautiful is beautiful because it's vocals, bansuri sounds and modern beats. I have to point out that Midival Punditz's team is also behind this track. Seems that they prove again that they can make great tracks!
Otherwise, most of the album is full of dreaming sounds, yet so powerful ones. I would call it a dreaming techno sound. Pretty contradictional sounds, but awfully great ones!
A track called Drive is the one where's no powerful techno sounds. This is the one actually to listen before going to sleep. No vocals, just sitar and electronic sounds.
Opposite to Drive is Hole In the Sky, which is excellent track with deep tabla drum sessions (KK is the best with drums). There's so much action in it that it seems like I'm listening to a soundtrack from an action movie.
Listen to clips of all tracks from this album in Amazon.com
This is an album that you should definitely listen to!
(Due to broken disc I cannot review last third of this album. Thanks to HMV ;) Having listened to it before, I can tell you that the rest of the album is as good as the first part of it. If you have chance take a closer look!
Broken English is yet again music that connects West and East. Global electronic music. Karsh Kale's music is perfect fusion. Sometimes listening to other artists, I feel that West and East is connected violently in their music. They don't blend together. Karsh Kale doesn't have that problem.
For example second track on this album, Dancing At Sunset. There's modern beats with nice guitar tunes mixed with percussion and tabla drums. Vocals in English and Indian? only makes it more perfect. Even better example is Beautiful (unfortunately there's only mix version available), which is one of the greatest tracks in Asian-British scene! It's just so tender and sweet that I don't understand why I haven't heard it so far from the radio. Compared to Punjabi MC's tracks, its also definitely worth playing in Western music radio channels. Beautiful is beautiful because it's vocals, bansuri sounds and modern beats. I have to point out that Midival Punditz's team is also behind this track. Seems that they prove again that they can make great tracks!
Otherwise, most of the album is full of dreaming sounds, yet so powerful ones. I would call it a dreaming techno sound. Pretty contradictional sounds, but awfully great ones!
A track called Drive is the one where's no powerful techno sounds. This is the one actually to listen before going to sleep. No vocals, just sitar and electronic sounds.
Opposite to Drive is Hole In the Sky, which is excellent track with deep tabla drum sessions (KK is the best with drums). There's so much action in it that it seems like I'm listening to a soundtrack from an action movie.
Listen to clips of all tracks from this album in Amazon.com
This is an album that you should definitely listen to!
(Due to broken disc I cannot review last third of this album. Thanks to HMV ;) Having listened to it before, I can tell you that the rest of the album is as good as the first part of it. If you have chance take a closer look!
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Karsh Kale is top draw. Nice blogspot btw
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