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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 60 reviews)
Sales Rank: 84073
Category: Music
Artist: Talvin Singh
Publisher: Fontana Island
Studio: Fontana Island
Manufacturer: Fontana Island
Label: Fontana Island
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731452455925
EAN: 0731452455925
ASIN: B00000DI1W
Release Date: November 3, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Traveller | | • | Butterfly | | • | Sutrix | | • | Mombasstic | | • | Decca | | • | Eclipse | | • | OK | | • | Light | | • | Disser/ Point, Mento B | | • | Soni | | • | Vikram the Vampire |
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Amazon.com
OK is one phrase that's universally known and understood, and on OK Talvin Singh tries for a similar global connection. A classically trained tabla player, he's performed with Bjoerk and Massive Attack, holds his own club nights in London, and is the leading light of the burgeoning Asian Underground movement--in other words, a man of many parts. He brings them all together here--the Bollywood strings, the kannakol patterns of Indian music, and the skittering rhythms of drum & bass and jungle--to create something that is new and thoroughly vibrant. This is Britain at the millennium, drawing on its immigrants, full of Eastern promise, and ready to dive headlong into the future. An album of both intelligence and passion, it is more than OK; it's a complete marvel. --Chris Nickson
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| Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...
 Eclipse is the Best November 11, 2005
Eclipse is the best fusion track that I have listened to in recent times. Talvin Singh is very talented with the Tabla
psychotropic fusions August 23, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
masterful, visionary, tantric fusions of sound to energize and delight.
A nice complement to the darker works of the band, Male or Female.
Salvaje y Descarado April 11, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Talvin Singh es un maestro de la fusion entre Oriente (escrito con letras de un rojo pasion, sinuosa y aterciopelada la caligrafia) y Occidente (brillante y neon, recto y pulcro). Talvin Singh es almizcle y mirra y opio en la autopista. Talvin Singh es una de mis ultimas obsesiones.
Este caballero de ascendencia india ha remezclado canciones de grandes nombres como Madonna, Bjoerk y David Bowie, y sin embargo, su principal aportacion, en mi opinion, es levantar la cortina de seda transparente que separa mundos acusticos tan diversos. Albergo con codicia dos de sus trabajos: Ok y Ha.
Ok es salvaje y descarado, un album lleno de monosilabos que te invade, inunda y empuja sin timidez alguna. Sus melodias son rocambolescas, llenas de texturas deslumbrantes, hartas de gozo y encanto. Es un viaje en un atestado y humeante autobus indio. Los baches te destrozan la espalda, el olor de las especias te ahoga y dopa, el griterio te excita y aterra a la vez. Y sin embargo, hay un momento de quietud entre la zozobra, una puesta de sol a traves de cristales sucios. Una lagrima entre sonrisas.
El mundo esta lleno de sonidos, de voces, de ritmos, de melodias. Quiero devorarlos todos, saciar mi apetito descomunal. Talvin Singh me ha llevado al este. Quieres acercarte conmigo?
great grooves August 22, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Talvin Singh is a master at his craft, and it's evident on O.K. Elegant tabla rhythms mix superbly with electronic music to create a sublime ambient sound from the Asian underground. If you like ambient music, or Eastern-influenced electronica, you won't be sorry you bought this album.
Marvellous May 6, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is beyond any doubt a very strange album. Since I'm not really into drum'n'bass (with the exception of some rather old Aquasky stuff), it was kind of a risk to buy it. Anyhow, I'm really glad I did so. It contains a magical blend of Indian and electronic music, Singh balances on the thin border between earth and space. The sound of the asian instruments is incredible, since Talvin Singh is a professional tabla-player, the technical quality is far beyond average.
I like it. A lot. The most bizarre thing is that I keep on doing so, no matter how much I listen to it.
Without any doubt a marvellous creation... and you shouldn't doubt a second about buying it.
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