Vinyl tracklist:
A)
1. Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle & Mahendra Kapoor - Pyar Zindagi Hai
2. Kalyanji Anandji - Cabaret Dance Music (Instrumental)
3. Asha Bhosle - Mera Naam Hai Shabnam
4. Shiv Hari - Moments Of Passion (Instrumental)
5. R.D. Burman - Title Music (Instrumental)
B)
1. Asha Bhosle - Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana
2. Usha Iyer & Asha Bhosle - Hare Rama Hare Krishna
3. Laxmikant-Pyarelal - Soul Of Bobby (Instrumental)
4. Asha Bhosle - Aye Naujawan Sab Kuchh Yahan (Apradh)
5. Kalyanji Anandji - Dance Music (Instrumental)

In the 1960s and 1970s Bollywood composers adventurously adopted the trippy guitars, spiralling synthesizers and ethereal vocals of psychedelia and mixed it with lusciously over-the-top Indian orchestrations. Jewels included feature songs by Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Usha Iyer and yodeller Kishore Kumar.

Inherently conservative yet beholden to commercial imperatives, the Indian film industry has provided a precious ongoing narrative to the swiftly changing socio-cultural landscape since Independence. Few issues have caused such concern, excitement and debate as the incursion of so-called Western values, yet this Rough Guide shows Bollywood composers at their most playfully engaged, experimenting with radical new ideas, freely adopting myriad ‘outside’ influences and often creating an extraordinary, irresistible psychedelic mish-mash.

Influenced by the Western rock and the intertwined hippy movement, as the sixties rolled on the underground Indian psychedelic scene mushroomed, inspiring composers like R.D. Burman to work far-out music into their blockbuster soundtracks. Evidently the Western psychedelic movement owed much to Indian inspiration and the relationship was mutual: the sounds and styles of the swinging sixties trickled back to Indian shores and went on to manifest themselves, first in the.......
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