Dhol Foundation - Big Drum: Small World
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Artist: Dhol FoundationEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: Narada
Soundtracks:
- Eik Din
- Eik Din Part 2
- Iridian
- Healing With Turmeric
- Shin The Mechanic
- Poseidon
- Seven Heaven
- TDF Meets DCS
- Tere Bina
- Big Drum Small World
- Colours Of Punjab
- Drummer's Reel
Music reviews of Big Drum: Small World
Music Review: Fantastic Album
Rating: 5 Stars
Why does everything have to be lumped into some sort of category? This isn't dance music - this is great music with a beat. Why can't it be left at that? Johnny Kalsi has taken the Dhol and turned it into a groove machine by incorporating acoustic elements with electronic. Some of the tracks start off deceptively mellow and seem to erupt in a wall of sound - Healing With Turmeric being one of my favorites.
If you are looking for dance or disco - go buy a damned Madonna album. This is the kind of album you play at an outdoor party in the middleof summer with a bonfire blazing.
Description of Big Drum: Small World
Technofied, groove-intensive Asian crossover sounds for the '00s, Big Drum: Small World showcases the dynamic Dhol Foundation weaving its Punjabi drum magic within a cavalcade of beats, keyboards, flutes, vocals, and strings both acoustic and synthetic. The group is lead by Johnny Kalsi, who is currently a principal drummer in Afro Celt Sound System, and who has also played with Transglobal Underground, Asian Dub Foundation, and Talvin Singh. This CD by no means attempts to be a purist effort, or, conversely, to jump on a bandwagon of sampling Indian instruments and then regurgitating them in digital dance form. The results are somewhere in the middle, with the group's live playing interacting with programmed elements. As electro-organic bhangra-style dance, this music can be intense. Some repetitive sections scream out for greater motion, while others are balanced nicely between the organic and the electronic. A couple of tracks even offer gritty bursts of electric guitar. On the whole, the recorded output by Dhol Foundation is pretty good, although their live performances are probably more smoking. The album includes notable guest appearances by like-minded world crossover artists: British-based Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas appears on "Shin the Mechanic" and "Tere Bina," while "Iridian" sounds like uncredited samples of Afro Celt Sound System. --Bryan ReesmanWorld Dance CDs
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