Not Canadian at all, but somehow showing up on Iron Music, Govinda is a famous Indian / Italian band out of Florence, Italy. Govinda included Satya Mana, Pandit Ananda, Yasodanandana, Maureen Fernando, Luigi Gabaldi, Mario Leonelli, Chandra & DJ Om formed in the 1990s with the aim of combining the then popular ambient techno sound with ethnic Indian influences. They have toured & collaborated with other artists such as Transglobal Underground, Loop Guru, Lovecalò, Farfa, & Stefano Noferini.
They created a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds & dance or chillout beats. Their sound has been labeled "ethno-introspective ambient world music".
The long "Atom Heart Madras Suite" that closes this, their 1998 disc, is a truly progressive work with many different sections, mostly ambient or EBM-based, with a few trancey injections.
If
Govinda
A Modern Mantra
Exotica
The Call of the Jungle
Eclipse
Atom Heart Madras Suite -
Part 1 (Atom Heart I - Fax 'Em Out by Friday)
Part 2 (Atom Heart II - Charm of Jaipur)
Part 3 (Hindustry)
Part 4 (Atom Heart III - Peacocktails-One of These Startlit Nights-Back in Madura-Citizen)
Pump that Iron,
NØ
Atom Heart Madras
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This looks very interesting. I looked them up and see other Floyd references in album titles, and one Genesis nod. Certainly got my attention.
ReplyDeleteYou don't half dig up some fascinating obscurities Nate. The album sleeve made me chortle. I can't wait to get this onto my hard drive so i can listen to it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what you two are going on so about this band. Italian / Indian Pink Floyd...what?
ReplyDeleteI think "...what?" rather sums it up in a nutshell there mate; a bit like driving down a motorway/interstate & rubbernecking at a pile-up on the other carriageway: you can't resist going, "what the fuuu..." and craning your neck. So too with this release. I mean, what twisted mind could resist? Certainly not mine.
DeleteI did not know this band, at all. Late 1990s I had some wonderfull albums/12''s with dual speed. 12's you had to change from 33 to 45 or the other way around half way through the song.
ReplyDeleteIt also was the time of Transglobal, Fun-Da-Mental and compilations such as Going Global and Eastern Uprising.
In recent years a (totally unrelated) movie bore the title I experienced back in the late 1990's for the first time. Everything Everywhere All At Once. People from everywhere making music with experiences from all over the world. It was a split-second of Freedom
Good shit NØ! Thanks for sharing it with us! This release is novel and interesting, yet calls back to older forms. Delightful!
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