Rolling Punjab, Hindi/Bollywood, etc. jams from Asia...

thanks for the change!

anyway, curmudgeon, where did you see Asha? would love to have been able to catch her, i was trying to listen to Dil Padosi Hai the other day, but it just click for me like her film songs.

I saw her at Wolf Trap Farm Park, in a Virginia suburb of Washington DC. There's a large Indian population here, and the crowd was nearly all Indian/South Asian. A 10,000 seat location (4,000 seats in roof covered but open-air on the side pavilion and 6,000 lawn seats). She had cool backdrop visuals alternating between Bollywood looking clips and psychedelic imagery). She had her granddaughter dance and sing for a song or 2 as well. Granddaughter was good but not great.

Haven't kept up with this as much as I wanted at all, but this is a pretty cool synth-pop song, really shows how easy the hindi elements combine with western pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2B8OAotU8

great song! i do think a song like that would cross over well in the west with a bit of english in the chorus.

i am sucker for bollywood love songs this year, been listening to Love You Zindagi from Dear Zindagi a lot lately. Ironically i also like Pritam's The Breakup Song too which has to be the most joyous song ever written with Breakup in the title.

Also does anyone know if there is a specific release schedule for their movie?, I assume there must be certain times they aim to release movies, maybe they aim for the holidays? I feel like Bollywood this fall has been way better than the rest of the year.

Arijit Singh North American tour this month

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All i can google shows him around the US until the end of April, any chance you know if he's coming to Canada at all?

I just knew of an April 21 gig in the Washington DC/state of Virginia area and some other US gigs and typed that, sorry. Looks like he hasn't been to Canada in years

yeah no worries, just gotta get myself to newark is the moral of the story!

can someone in the know rec me a few good albums along this vein. been getting into my old Daler and Colonial Cousins albums + some by Malkit Singh and wondering what else is out there that people like, not just stuff I've stumbled upon by chance. thank you in advance my friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRd3TBrVJNM

Ali Sethi - "Pasoori"

a Punjabi and Urdu-language single by Pakistani singers Ali Sethi and debutant Shae Gill. It was released on 6 February 2022 as the sixth song of season 14 (episode two) of Coke Studio Pakistan and was subsequently released on YouTube on 7 February 2022. There's a New Yorker article about how the song has fans in India and Pakistan