Shūnya

Mar
30
posted by Reggie Maurice

George Harrison’s sitar noodling and Graceland-era Paul Simon aside, I haven’t seen the ‘World Music’ section at JB-HiFi expanding much recently. Speaking of which, was there ever such a reductionist cop-out term as ‘World Music’? Truth: the world is a scary, horrible place, filled with many ideas and places that aren’t Chatswood.

Enter Shunya (AKA Bal Singh) and his new EP ‘Petrichor’. I can’t rate this release highly enough. This Melbourne talent is an oasis in the creative desert I like to call ‘music from Melbourne’. According to his bandcamp page, Shunya is an ‘electronic musician/Indian classical musician/producer/sitar/tabla player’, and at this stage I’m getting the idea that the guy can do a lot of things. His tunes span the genres, interlacing heavy beats with sitar and jazz double bass and lyrics in at least 2 languages (including English). Listen:

Fella has a new EP out (through Bossman) as of about a month back.

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