Is Hamsa Lila Trance? Or Rock? Or World? A little of all three, an acoustic band that does some jazzy trance numbers that will take you somewhere in between the earth and clouds. Ethnic instruments combine with modern dance beats and wonderfully smooth vocals that speak to that mysterious part of your mind that likes to adventure to exotic locations while you’re asleep. Give that bit of your brain what it wants – it wants some Hamsa Lila.
Free Google Broadband!!
Those cards over at google.com have developed a great new service – well you’ll just have to check it out for yourself.
Here’s some further reading for those of you who may be amateur historians…
Sitting By The Back Door
Here’s my latest tune – sort of southern rock, sort of bluesy. I’ve been told it sounds like the Black Crows. Give a listen and let me know what you think.
Naturally7
I became an instant fan of these guys when I saw this video. Watch the way everyone on the train loosens up by the end of the song. Observe how a normally boring train ride home from work turns into a micro-party, even the complete herbs in the train eventually crack a smile, everyone whips out there blackberrys and camera phones. Be sure to hit up youtube for Naturally7’s concert performances.
Traditional Chinese Music
Traditional chinese instrumental music is one of my favorite things in the world. If there was one place on earth that I could go visit right now, it would be China. To be able to see Guilin, to be able to inspect the clay soldiers in the tomb of Qin in Xian, to walk the streets in Shanghai – that would be my dream trip. But for now I’ll settle for some music from the culture. Sinohits.com has some excellent and well recorded songs available for listening. Sorry, no downloads here – the tracks play in windows media player only. But they are worth going to the trouble for, if you like this sort of thing. (Of course, if you’re just a tad bit sneaky, you’ll figure out how to grab them anyway.) Give yourself a culture injection and give these songs at least one listen.
Update: IE is killing me.
I just checked out the site from within Internet Explorer. I must apologize to IE users, the site is completely broken in IE. Until I cantrack down the problem(s), bahgheera’s orbit is best viewed with Firefox. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The Shadow
The Internet Archive has a huge selection of recordings of ‘The Shadow’, a radio play that ran in the 1930’s and 1940’s. I have strong memories of my grandfather, in his most ominous voice, repeating the opening line of the show; ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!’.
BTW, I have added a forum and a shoutbox to the site, so drop a note and see whats going on, or post up some music that you think should be added to the site.
Stupid blog tricks
Here’s a neat-o toy for the orbit – the orbit category map. It’s one of those tag cloud type things, not very useful but pretty to look at. I’ve been super busy lately, but things are chilled out again so beware – music will be coming up soon!
Laters…
Tru Thoughts
Tru Thoughts is a netlabel that features artists such as Bonobo and Quantic. They have a freebie page as well as a podcast. Check out the free tracks, the four that are there now will be taken down on March 20. Four quality tracks of downtempo chilledness. Get ’em before they’re gone. Then check back for more.
Whats Left – Speedstar
David Lichtenberger and Thomas Herlth at Tokyo Trauma have come up with five tracks of electrojazz excellence that you absolutely must not miss. This is a difficult one to link to, as all Tokyo Trauma’s releases are on one page so this will require a tiny bit of effort on your part. Click the link, and fourth from the bottom of the page is a release called Speedstar by Whats Left. These five tracks are in a word – awesome.