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the Sitarycon
| Artist | Song | |
| the Beatles | Norwegian Wood (65) | |
| the Yardbirds | Heart Full of Soul (sitar version 65) | |
| the Rolling Stones | Paint It, Black (66) | |
| Traffic | Hole In My Shoe (67) | |
| Ben Colder | the Love-In (67) | |
| Bill Soden | My Mermaid & Me (67) | |
| Flames | Solitude (68) | |
| Nirvana Sitar & String Group | the Letter (68) | |
| Lord Sitar | Eleanor Rigby (68) | |
| Kaleidoscope (US) | Taxim (68) | |
| Gandalf | Can You Travel in the Dark (68) | |
| Blonde On Blonde | Spinning Wheel (69) | |
| Ananda Shankar | Renunciation (70) | |
| the Delfonics | Didn't I (Blow Your Mind) (70) | |
| Euclid | Lazy Livin' (70) | |
| Redbone | Come and Get Your Love (74) | |
| Ravi Shankar/Philip Glass | Ragas In Minor Scale (90) | |
| Webb Wilder | I Had Too Much To Dream (91) | |
| Brian Jonestown Massacre | Salaam (97) | |
| Morcheeba | Baby Sitar (98) | |
| the Beatles | Love You To (66) | |
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a really cool one, i'm not sure i can take this much sitar at once but i can always try
Cool mix. I most definitely want to trade for this.
Ah yes, I love sitar music.This is a really good journey through the years of sitar pop, very nice.
Stunning Valis.
quite an undertaking Mr. V; maybe you should offer an instrumental history course @ some University in uh-Hi-oh...attendance would soar...!
Amazing, Valis. I may also need this in the near future. Excellent liner notes, as well.
This is perhaps your best mix yet, old friend. A truly brilliant concoction of eastern-influenced delights. Lots on this I haven't heard and lots I want to. Informative and voluminous liner notes also. If this one doesn't get you a well deserved (and might I add, long overdue) Mix Of The Week, then something is rotten in the state of Denmark!
What a great way to commemorate your first anniversary on this site! A truly excellent mix, with liner notes that Griel Marcus would be proud of. Please put this at the top of the proverbial pile puleeze! Turn me on "Dead Man."
One more thing -- wonderful to see two of my favorite instruments represented in mixes over the last couple days (the other being Sean Lally's Rickenbacker mix) Also it's Greil, not Griel. Woops.
This looks great Valis. Love to hear this one too.
Hey, this is what I like. Someone who obviously spends some time and thought -- and does his research -- in putting together a mix. The result is something not only very listenable, but informative as well. Great work professor valis, doctor of sitarology!
By the way, did you know that with enough Wild Turkey, along about 3 or 4 in the morning, Bill Monroe's mandolin sounds positivly sitar-like? ;o)
By the way, did you know that with enough Wild Turkey, along about 3 or 4 in the morning, Bill Monroe's mandolin sounds positivly sitar-like? ;o)
Great mix and a very interresing comment. You're an expert Valis.
Wow! Thanks for calling my attention to this. Sorry I missed it the first time, It's been a crazy week. What can I add to what's already been said? Is the cover art a Satyr playing a sitar? ;-)
So where is the cover art Valis? I know you've got plenty of trippy images suitable for this!
the people have spoken, valis...they demand COVER ART ( an' Tee Shirts, coffee mugs & a national tour...)!!!
...I do have cover art..., seems to be a problem with the site uploading an image.....it's a good one, too! (imho)
I just got your e-mail with the cover, and it's outstanding! Sorry that you're having problems uploading it.
oh yes...very cool cover...!
Looks just as brilliant as I thought it would (though I definitely expected it to be a double set!). Love the Delfonics (one of my all-time fave singles), Redbone (yass!) and Nirvana (move over, Alex Chilton) trax. And boy, what a great cover. Can't wait to hear vols. 2-10 . . . (P.S.: E you this afternoon, after all the shopping's done, okay?)
fantastic selections, valis. and it's always great learning about the "inside scoop" bits as well.
WOW! MIND-BLOWING!! WONDER-FUL!!! what a great mix. i love it.
Excellent work Valis, always had a bit of sitar infatuation myself.For volume two, I recommend Big Jim Sullivan's version of Sunshine Superman from 1967 which features an amazing flute solo as well as sitar - what more could you ask for ?
holy shit! this rocks my ass off, valis. yr a wizard, a true s(i)tar.
This is amazing! How the hell did I miss it last week? Maybe we should do a tribute to the theremin mix, eh?
Hey, hey my whale! Have i ever told you how much i LOVE sitar????? I can't get enough of it! Ravi for president! By the way! I don't think there is Sitar on the Gandalf tune, it sounds like sitar but there is another instrument i read! Maybe it's wrong but hey....who gives a fuck, it's a incredible good tune, if you don't have the whole Gandalf-album...GO AND BUY IT VALIS!!!! You know i love red wine don't you;) It's to cold in Sweden these days, maybe I'm gonna do a volume 2 for this mix, what do you think about that whale??
Hey Mike! Yeah, go ahead and do a "Vol. 2".., (I'm actually thinking of expanding this two a 2-disc set.) Yep, that's a see-tar on the Gandalf...but thanks for looking. Mmmm, we love room temperature reds in winter!
Almost accidentally coming back to this, I realized that - after having given it like at least a dozen spins - I failed to mention that this is a freaking MASTERPIECE of Fellationesque proportions, if you catch my drift, folks. Every home should have one. So grab it while you can. N-O-W.
I'm packin up my Clavichord for a Sitar. Great mix.
My love for the sitar started with track one and has grown ever since. Thanks for feeding my addiction with this one, V! You should be working for Rhino!
*** NOEL HARRISON: ON THE SITAR, as transcribed by Gaven Dianda from an old TV clip ***
"This is an Indian Sitar, In order to play one all you need is eight fingers on each hand and a great deal of time. If you want to find out more about the influence of the Sitar on popular music, stay tuned in and we'll turn you on after this message"....
"New musical expression is a combination of effects, a discovery of word and sound, that's why musicians like Ravi Shankar from India have suddenly attracted the attention of the young thinker. An Indian Raga played on the Sitar is free expression in music. There's space in a Raga to do what you want to do, to do your own thing -musically, But at the same time the Sitar is an immensly complicated stringed instrument that takes years to master. So we have a slight paradox, Freedom to express oneself, within the limitation of having to become a perfectionist. Ah..In my previous life i was Marshall McLuhan. This is our first trip into Psuchedelia. In it you will be experiencing a mixture of poetry, music , electronics, light and sound that can't help but affect you. There's a Beatles song called "Tomorrow Never Knows" the first line goes "Turn off Your Mind, Relax and float downstream...This is not dying..." -from "Sweet Floral Albion, No. 24"
"This is an Indian Sitar, In order to play one all you need is eight fingers on each hand and a great deal of time. If you want to find out more about the influence of the Sitar on popular music, stay tuned in and we'll turn you on after this message"....
"New musical expression is a combination of effects, a discovery of word and sound, that's why musicians like Ravi Shankar from India have suddenly attracted the attention of the young thinker. An Indian Raga played on the Sitar is free expression in music. There's space in a Raga to do what you want to do, to do your own thing -musically, But at the same time the Sitar is an immensly complicated stringed instrument that takes years to master. So we have a slight paradox, Freedom to express oneself, within the limitation of having to become a perfectionist. Ah..In my previous life i was Marshall McLuhan. This is our first trip into Psuchedelia. In it you will be experiencing a mixture of poetry, music , electronics, light and sound that can't help but affect you. There's a Beatles song called "Tomorrow Never Knows" the first line goes "Turn off Your Mind, Relax and float downstream...This is not dying..." -from "Sweet Floral Albion, No. 24"
This is wonderful.
I said it before, and I'll say it again, cuz hearing it is everything
WONDERFUL.
WONDERFUL.
Substantial!