Today, i’ll talk a bit more about music. My friends usually picture me as a singer of bollywood songs. Sure I am. I still try to listen to each and every song that comes out. But now i’ll delete those that don’t appeal to me on the 1st hit of play. I won’t say, ‘Maybe if i listen to it more, i’ll get to like it.’ I know my tastes now., tastes that have changed during these few years abroad. Bollywood is only part of my library, but i still look for that indian touch in every song. My favourite artists remain A.R. Rahman and Nitin Sawhney, because they are the only composers that have been able to blend indian influences to occidental styles, and have kept doing it consistently, mesmerizing us with every new song.
Now, here’s why i’m actually writing this post. I wanted to share my playlist during my 16 hours of travel from Bordeaux to Mauritius. Here’s the opportunity to appreciate a few albums with shuffle turned off.
I can’t even take a nap in the TGV or the plane. I'll keep my laptop if wifi is available in Paris or for a movie eventually. So if there’s noone interesting beside me to talk to, here's what i'll listen to: music that won’t make me sing but that'll nonetheless activate my facial muscles out of appreciation or in a bid to attain a very low or very high pitch. Music that i’ve had in my library this year but which i never listened to on one go.
Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale
Breathing Under Water
2007
Ensemble Badila
Qalandar Express
2006
Badmarsh & Shri
Signs
2001
Susheela Raman
33 1/3
2007
Nitin Sawhney
Philtre
2005
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
2006
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Charkha
2007
Asa
Asa
2007
A.R. Rahman
Vande Mataram
1997
That should be enough for the trip. In case I manage to refill my ipod, it’ll have the following too.
 Shankar Mahadevan, Shivamani & Louis Banks SILK Fusion Show |  Sigur Rós Hvarf / Heim 2007 |
 Grand Corps Malade Midi 20 2006 |  Susheela Raman Music For Crocodiles 2006 |
 In the Mind of Nitin Sawhney 2007 |  Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Searching For The Hows And Whys 2008 |
 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Micheal Brook Mustt Mustt 1990 |  Jagjit & Chitra Singh Beyond Time 1987 |
I’ll end this post with these two songs that always remind me of a plane flight: the Swades Theme (A.R. Rahman) and Flight IC408 (State of Bengal).
That’ll be all from Adarsh.
See you in Mauritius as from July 11.
