THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...
Anoushka Shankar
Hide & Seek by Stormzy, a lot – a perfect vibe. I’ve also been rediscovering Tracy Chapman and appreciating what a master songwriter she is. Also Midnight Sun by Isaac Delusion sits in that nice, mellow, groovy space.
If I have to, like, die only listening to one album for the rest of my life, it would be Passages by my dad [Ravi] and Philip Glass, this duet album they did in 1990. Each piece has like a kernel of one of them, it’s just a weird kind of magic.
I was visiting my auntie in Montreal and I went to my very first shopping mall and bought a cassette of Kylie by Kylie Minogue.
Someone I’d kill to work with is Björk.
She’s got such a fearlessness and inventiveness, it would be incredible to be her.
I try to remember old Bollywood songs I grew up listening to – recently In Ankhon Ki Masti by Asha Bhosle. They’re impossible to sing because it takes such a high skill level, so I always end up laughing.
I’m listening to a lot of Sault again, I still love their 5. Otherwise, I might get nostalgic and listen to some Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl.
If I’m in a Western music mood, it might be Ólafur Arnald & Nils Frahm’s Trance Frendz. On the Indian side, some gorgeous improvised classical music. Also, I’m in love with Chan Kithan by Ali Sethi right now.
Anoushka Shankar’s Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn is out April 5 on LEITER.
Karl Bartos
Since we have a few gigs coming up, I’m rehearsing and there isn’t much time for other music. Whenever I can, I sit at the piano or grab my acoustic guitar and play whatever is floating around in my head.
Recently it was Yesterday Once More by the Carpenters.
The Beatles – Revolver.
I spent Christmas/New Year 1965 with my family in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. There was a small record shop in the village and in the window I discovered Get Off Of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones. I had no idea what it sounded like, but I’d heard Satisfaction and bought the new single with my pocket money. This just had to be done!
I don’t want to be a different musician, but I would want to have some of Orpheus’s abilities. With his music he could move people, animals and even stones. His harp playing and singing even convinced the ruler of the underworld to give him back his wife.
I don’t. It would probably be complete nonsense.
I’m not a heavy music consumer at home. If I want to consciously listen, then I need an occasion, a concert. In contrast, making music is like breathing for me. What I enjoy most is composing: observing the world, trying things out.
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