India Bharti To the Blue God LP 1989
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India Bharti To the Blue God LP 1989
Original pressing on Third Eye Records, through Red Eye Records.
“Real” name: Jai Shankar
Website: http://www.indiabharti.com/
From his site:
If someone had suggested eighteen years ago that I would become a wandering musician and that I should make my living playing music and singing all over the world I think I should have expressed utter disbelief. However, this is the path that my life has taken since I met my Guru, Sri Pashuram Bharti and the sadhus of the Sri Panch Das Nam Juna Akkada.
My music is played on the electric violin and the Bhartiphone - an instrument of my own invention.
These web pages contain a collection of the lyrics to some of the songs I have written and sung since I began performing. Some of these songs have been sung literally thousands of times and some not very often at all. They were written all over the planet. I have never been able to fathom what compels one to write a song but sometimes, in my case, it has been simply that the words have popped into my head. In other cases I’ve worried away at the lyrics for months before completing the piece.
From Australia Adlib:
A sign is placed beside an extremely hairy, holy man. It reads "I'm a nomad, not mad". And if you read through the India Bharti song book, that much is clear.
Superficially, a performance from this man has all the anaemic ingredients of a Byron Bay hippy gathering from 30 years ago, but in dismissing this do-it-yourself guru, you would be missing out on an intense musical personality and the lifetime's work of a dedicated sage. This guy is serious and is not dictated to by any fashion.
ABC producer Brent Clough was very taken by the experience of this 'cyber-saddhu' one Sydney arvo; this is what he witnessed.
"I remember encountering India Bharti at Glebe markets one afternoon and being really fascinated by his music and his presence. He was a one man band set up by a large tree. Exposed roots of the tree cradled his amazing tangle of equipment: leads, effects boxes, amplified branches. He appeared like an extension of some underground system. He played a mic’d-up violin and blew into a curly log (the Bhartiphone - possibly one of India's homemade wind instruments?) and I think used his toes to set off various effects and loops. Initially I imagined him to be a drug-addled hippy, but it became clear he was a Hindu holy man or saddhu (with ash or something on his face and on his long beard), although he was white. He didn’t engage with the crowd much and was clearly more intent on making music than hustling for handouts. His music was an entrancing racket which blended strings, programmed beats and layers of effects. It was really a terrific mix of organic and technological and I guess was something like an electro-raga – full of drones and different tonal colours - but also some sub-species of trance or techno, though the beats were often quite submerged. I seem to recall there were spoken vocals too but heavily processed and distorted. It was in no way soothing new-age ambient music. It was shot through with some kind of devotional fervour, packed with weird sounds whose sources were hard to identify and was really dynamic. I enjoyed sitting alongside other astonished market-goers and digging the Bharti vibrations for quite a while that afternoon."
Side 1:
Money
Karma
Dominant Paradigm
Dynamite
Side 2:
Post-Nuclear Bomb Babies
Names Of Shiva
The Curse
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: EX+ to NM
RECORD: NM
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