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Fun and Funky
It's got that lovely texture to some of the tracks, like an old 40’s western number. I love all the big band era music, Sinatra, early Ellla Fitzgerald type stuff too, and this is fun and funky. - Heather Anderson
A Brilliant Fusion
Nagraan is a brilliant fusion of disparate musical threads. He weaves the arch vocal stylings of high Bollywood into a tapestry of driving rhythm, reflective electronic ruminations and startling digressions into uncharted sonic terrain. This is original stuff, rare and audacious in its reach, and it defies easy categorization. Call it Bolly-world fusion, if you must label it. I just call it bloody good." Michael Park, Canada
"Very seductive. It pounds . . . and then it undulates . . . then it starts to drift and sway. . . then it reconnects . . . and then it surprises and shifts into something oddly unexpected. And it always keeps trucking down that road." Joe Tabby, New Orleans
Darryl Coy is a guitar player and songwriter living in Cleveland, Ohio USA. Darryl is slightly tone deaf and is probably singing out of tune as you read this.
As a young man, Darryl aspired to be a great guitarist, but instead decided to get an engineering degree, a business degree, start a family, make a decent living and spend his discretionary income on recording gear.
Darryl plays the guitar intro and wah sections on the big epic track, Waqt Ne Kiya
Nagraan is a combination of technology, love of production, pop sensibilities and something else that's undefinably quirky.
It combines dance beats with deep, lush productions; polyrythms from all over the world with melodies from the Indian subcontinent; and some traditional 'rock' textures like guitar and saxophone. We literally lost count of how many genres this album crosses.
And behind all that is the rediscovery, remixing and frequent re-writing of some very old material, and some very old performances. Combining songs, riffs and hooks from over 50 years ago into new tracks that go off in completely different directions, with different rhythms, tempos and even musical scales.
It's a new kind of pop music. Intelligent ear candy.
How did we make it?
Nagraan was made over a period of three years from 2004-2007 at Calamity Studio, Singapore. Most of the vocal tracks came from songs that had been recorded between 1940 and 1965 for Bollywood films.
Apart from Lata Mangeshkar, all of the original singers passed away many years ago. We worked with the latest technology to bring out the original vocal tracks from the old master recordings, sometimes from rather dubious sources, separating the orchestras and percussion wherever possible through modern digital technology. Whatever we did, it had to work because no-one was going to come back into the studio to do a retake.
In some instances we completely remixed the entire song, providing new drums, bass, keyboards, synths, guitars and saxophone. In other cases we took the 'hook' and wrote completely new sections. Check out the original bollywood tracks on YouTube and see the dramatic changes in sonics.
Choose from any DRM free format that you like, at any price that you care to name. The album download also includes a PDF of the artwork.
And if you want the CD, try CD Baby
Fun and Funky
It's got that lovely texture to some of the tracks, like an old 40’s western number. I love all the big band era music, Sinatra, early Ellla Fitzgerald type stuff too, and this is fun and funky. - Heather Anderson
A Brilliant Fusion
Nagraan is a brilliant fusion of disparate musical threads. He weaves the arch vocal stylings of high Bollywood into a tapestry of driving rhythm, reflective electronic ruminations and startling digressions into uncharted sonic terrain. This is original stuff, rare and audacious in its reach, and it defies easy categorization. Call it Bolly-world fusion, if you must label it. I just call it bloody good." Michael Park, Canada
"Very seductive. It pounds . . . and then it undulates . . . then it starts to drift and sway. . . then it reconnects . . . and then it surprises and shifts into something oddly unexpected. And it always keeps trucking down that road." Joe Tabby, New Orleans
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