• Sheema Mukherjee – Sheema (Vinyl) with USB stick

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  Her debut album, Mukherjee already has a reputation as a top ranked sitar player, learning her craft, via Hindustani classical music, from her uncle, Nikhil Banerjee, Ali Akbar Khan and Aashish Khan. This vinyl release is an ideal opportunity to hear this expressive instrument on analogue.
  
  This might be her debut album but fans of alternative dance music and intelligent techno, not to mention regular listeners to the much missed John Peel Show, will be very familiar with Mukherjee’s output as part of the revered Transglobal Underground, fronted by Natacha Atlas as well as her work with the Imagined Village, the multicultural folk project set up by Simon Emmerson of Afro Celt Sound System.
  
  In 2005, she emerged as a composer in her own right, creating the music for the West Yorkshire Playhouse productions Gluey and the Lion and Non-Contact Time as well as the score for the Tamasha Theatre Company’s 2009 musical Wuthering Heights. Her composition Bending in the Dark appeared during the 2012 Summer Olympics.
  
  My goodness how this album rings the changes of variety.
  
  Starting with Slash Sitar which sounds positively heavy metal in its approach. Grandiose, epic and dominating. Sikkim Girls lowers the pace and takes a lumbering, yet still complex arrangement while Little Dragon sees Mukhergee in full sitar solo flight, forming complex shapes and pictures. The cross cultural nature of her career remains on this album with her moving into Radiohead lyrics while her reggae-tinged Sitska begs for regular dips to the knees during play. Then there is L’amite, complete with a French lyric! You get the general idea, here.
  
  Yes, it might lack a little focus, Mukherjee might sound like she’s just found the keys to a sweet shop, but there is plenty
  
  Label: ECC100 – 001
  Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Memory Stick, MPEG-4 Video, WAV, Album
  Country: UK
  Released: 2014
  Genre: Folk, World, & Country
  
  Tracklist
  A1 Slash Sitar 4:10
  A2 Sikkim Girls 4:59
  A3 Street Spirit
  Arranged By – Sheema Mukherjee
  Written-By – Radiohead
  Arranged By – Sheema Mukherjee
  Written-By – Radiohead
  4:30
  A4 Lucid & Just 5:33
  A5 Little Dragon
  Lyrics By – Ameer Khusro*
  Lyrics By – Ameer Khusro*
  4:40
  A6 SitSka 2:14
  A7 L'amitié
  Arranged By – Sheema Mukherjee
  Written-By – Françoise Hardy
  Arranged By – Sheema Mukherjee
  Written-By – Françoise Hardy
  2:52
  
  B1 Morning Celeste
  Mixed By – Geoff Webb
  Mixed By – Geoff Webb
  7:29
  B2 A 1000 Layer Cake 7:08
  B3 Mrs Moo 5:09
  B4 Saraswati Waltz 6:10
  B5 Morning Reprise 3:52
  B6 Bit God 2:33
  
  Credits
  Bass – Nigel Dale (tracks: A2, A5, 2, 5), Richard Evans (3) (tracks: B5, 12)
  Drums, Percussion – Ged Lynch
  Guitar – Nigel Dale
  Horns – Kick Horns
  Mixed By – Simon Massey (tracks: A1 to A7, B2 to B6, 1 to 7, 9 to 13)
  Ney – Serkan Alkan (tracks: A4, 4)
  Producer – Geoff Webb, Serkan Alkan, Sheema Mukherjee, Simon Emmerson, Simon Massey
  Sitar, Bass, Vocals, Tambura – Sheema Mukherjee
  Strings – John Metcalfe
  Tabla – Manjit Singh Rasiya (tracks: B1, 8)
  Vocals – Jackie Oates (tracks: A2, 2)
  Written-By – Sheema Mukherjee (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to A6, B1 to B6, 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8 to 13)
  
  Notes
  Issued in a gatefold sleeve.
  Tracks A7, 7 wrongly listed as "L'amite"
  
  Barcode and Other Identifiers
  Barcode: 5 060214 040297
  
  British composer and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee has been a regular in musical collective Transglobal Underground and a key member in The Imagined Village project, as well as a collaborator with musicians all over the world, since 1998. Having been influenced by both North Indian classical music as well as a variety of western music, Sheema has a distinctive sound that allows her to work across many styles and genres. In the past, she has worked with the likes of Noel Gallagher & Cornershop, Martin Carthy and Bobby McFerrin.
  
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