Folk, spoken word, jazz: Give the old mix a shuffle, says Sanjoy Narayan
Hindustan TimesIn an era of soulless algorithms and streaming giants curating our playlists, true musical gems often lie hidden in the shadows. In the title track of this new album, for instance, the 30-something Erhard sings about her life after a Mexican woman read her cards and told her “I’d arrived at my last life”. By contrast, Irish singer Lisa O’Neill’s Old Note is a deep song that refers to the Akashic records, a mystical theosophical concept of a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to occur, in the past, present and future. The song features the jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and combines Heems’s introspective lyrics with a compelling beat. Many Indian listeners may be familiar with the Saudi Arabia-born, Pakistani-American singer-composer Arooj Aftab, who is known to move effortlessly and quite uniquely between jazz, folk, Hindustani and Western classical music.
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Folk, spoken word, jazz: Give the old mix a shuffle, says Sanjoy Narayan
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