Sunday, May 14, 2006

Radio Dhamaal - Global Dubplate Culture










Dhamaal presents the latest dubplates and classics from top flight DJs and producers from around the planet. With 7 years of producing music, events and art Janaka Selekta, Maneesh the Twister and Dhruva bring you sounds from their exclusive vaults - sounds that you will only hear at a Dhamaal show or on Radio Dhamaal. Also featured will be depth interviews with such musical luminaries as State of Bengal and Cheb I Sabbah and more.

Tune in this week for an exclusive interview with Karsh Kale, discussing his new album 'Broken English'. On this, his third studio release, Karsh Kale (pronounced Kursh Kah-Lay) balances his Indian heritage with rock 'n' roll, hip hop and atmospheric pop for his most diverse release to date. Kale works with a talented cast of collaborators including MC Napoleon and vocalists Trixie Reiss (The Crystal Method), film composer Salim Merchant (one half of the "it" Bollywood composer team, Salim-Sulaiman) and Dierdre (Ekova).

Karsh Kale has spent much of the past five years watching music critics try to describe his music as some kind of hybrid of Eastern and Western, or traditional and electronic. And it's true that his early goal of bringing Indian classical music into the Western pop mainstream led him to create some genre-busting global electronic music. His first solo album, in 2001, Realize, established the young tabla-playing producer as a major force in the Asian Massive movement – a club-based phenomenon on several continents.
On his latest CD, Broken English, Kale has cut a clear path through the World Music underground and emerged with an album of truly global pop.

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