The rough guide to psychedelic India

"Bollywood started mixing psych with luxurious Indian orchestration; Asha Bhosle's "Dum Maro Dum" and Kalyanji-Anandji's instrumental "Dance Music" (...) demonstrate the vintage psychedelic sound ... India is nothing but intense, and this is reflected here in the funky work-out of Ananda Shankar's "Dancing Drums" and the tripped-out weirdness of Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti's "Rakshasa" ... The album includes a wide enough selection of music to encompass a variant of jazz in the previously unreleased "Jazz Thali" by Chamber of Dreams, the modern beats and sampling of "The Bombay Royale" by innovative Australian band Bombay Twist, and the tongue-twisting tabla epic of the Ray Spiegel Ensemble's "Moksha" ... Jyotsna Srikanth's instrumental "Thilana" captures the sense of escape in a vast, unknowable sub-continent ... The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India is a small but interesting part of a long strange trip".

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