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Delighted that Sheema's new album just got a lovely 4 star review in The Guardian/Observer!

[url="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/24/sheema-mukherjee-solo-debut-review-singular-creation"]http://www.theguardi...ngular-creation[/url]

[i]Sheema Mukherjee: Sheema review [/i][i](ECC100)[/i]
[i]– a singular creation

Classically trained but a fusioneer by nature, sitarist [url="http://www.mukherjee.co.uk/"]Sheema Mukherjee[/url] has played with trance troupe [url="http://transglobalunderground.net/"]Transglobal Underground[/url] and folk radicals [url="http://imaginedvillage.com/"]the Imagined Village[/url] among others. This solo debut ([url="http://www.eccrecords.co.uk/ecc100"]vinyl/MP4 only[/url]) draws from her palette with panache. Slash Sitar is a showboating rock thrash (air sitar, anyone?); Sikkim Girls comes drenched in Bollywood strings; Morning Celeste is a dreamy neoclassical raga; and the driving Little Dragon sounds as though John Lee Hooker had mastered the sitar. More unexpected are sweetly sung covers of Radiohead and Françoise Hardy and playful evocations of 60s pop (Mrs Moo) and sodden samosas on an English beach (Bit God). A charming, altogether singular creation.
[b]Neil Spencer[/b][/i]


Here's a video of a few numbers from our second show in the Bournemouth International Centre. Top night!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeTH90bO1s[/media]

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[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1409036540' post='2535597']
Lovely review mate! Neil Spencer typically knows his onions too when it comes to spotting good music. Well, I usually agree with him... and of course my own taste is impeccable :D

Very excited for you and all the best for the launch event on Thursday.
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Cheers Paul :)

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This is lovely, Nigel. And available on vinyl too!! I'm gonna order a copy. :)

Funnilly enough I saw a sitar player at a local gig this weekend. He was accompanied by a guy on 6 string bass. It was magical! I was thinking of starting a thread to see if anyone had any recommendations for sitar/Indian/fusion type music. But spookily enough, here was your thread just when I needed it, lol :D

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[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1409158937' post='2536966']
This is lovely, Nigel. And available on vinyl too!! I'm gonna order a copy. :)

Funnilly enough I saw a sitar player at a local gig this weekend. He was accompanied by a guy on 6 string bass. It was magical! I was thinking of starting a thread to see if anyone had any recommendations for sitar/Indian/fusion type music. But spookily enough, here was your thread just when I needed it, lol :D
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Thanks Shell!

Do you know who the sitarist was?

Just finished about 12 hours of rehearsal. It was fantastic. Brilliant studio in Kings Cross, seems like all the great and good use it, called The Joint. We had our own sound engineers with their digital desk and in ear monitoring for everyone (except me, I had a wedge), so all monitor mixing is stored and ready to go tomorrow. It was without exception the best rehearsal sound I've ever been a part of, by miles! The band sounds fabulous too, Chris Taylor on bass, Ged Lynch on drums, Mitel Purohit on tabla, Simon and Tim from the Kick Horns on flute and various saxes, Simon Richmond MDing and running the production, and Sheema. It's a real honour playing with these fabulous musicians, it's very humbling, and they are such lovely people and unremittingly professional. Can't wait for the gig tomorrow!!



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Alas, Nige I can't remember the name of the sitarist I saw. I did speak to him afterwards but I'm afraid I'd had a few ales by then (blushes).
Unfortunately for the Brum music scene he is now off to China to teach English for a year!
He may come back with some interersting influences though. :D

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Some footage from our show at the Bournemouth International Centre last week. It was a brilliant gig to play, my first time with in ear monitors too, I'm a total convert!

I'm on guitar and BVs, Chris Taylor on Bass, Simon Palmskin Richmond on BVs/MacBook/Percussion, Simon and Tim from the Kick Horns, Mitel Purohit on tabla, Ged Lynch on Drums, and Sheema on sitar and vocal. What a band to play with!

If you watch it, I hope you enjoy it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeTH90bO1s

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'Kinell, what a gig!! Thoroughly enjoyed that from start to finish. Looks and sounds great. And the band are superb - those practice sessions clearly paid off as you all made it look as though you've been playing together for years.

I especially like 'SitSka' and 'Mrs Moo'.

Sheema comes across as being lovely - I warmed to her immediately - and wow, what a musician.

Very good indeed mate! :)

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Aww thanks guys :) I tell you what, it's been fascinating working in a professional environment with such superb highly experienced session musicians. One thing I learned was that for all their chops, what stood out most for me was their musical memory and ability to pick things up so quickly. If Sheema asked do this or that, they did it mostly first time, and didn't need to be shown twice. Chris the bassist picked up a quite complicated line Sheema played him, and he had it first go. I think that's the thing, that ability to hear, play, and remember. No f***ing about. It was intimidating trying to keep up with that, but I did okay.

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[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410692274' post='2551930']
Excellent stuff, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great sense of fun shone through as well.

What happened to the vocal mix on the second song though? The guy was clearly singing something but it wasn't in the mix.

( glad to see you lost the leather strides though ;) )
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Cheers Fly!

He's making soft percussion sounds like shickiboomahh, so it's not very audible, it wasn't in rehearsals either.

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Well, apparently some of the music press can't handle vinyl.

[color=#37404E][font=Helvetica, Arial,]"The guy doing PR for Sheema’s album is reporting back a stubborn apathy from sections of the music press who refused to listen to the album as it’s 'vinyl only' and couldn’t be bothered to go to a digital link or put the USB stick in their computer to transfer the high res files."[/font][/color]

The album is on very high quality vinyl, with a gatefold sleeve and lovely packaging. [font=Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][color=#37404e]it comes with a tiny flip out USB stick that looks like a tiny album (I love that!) It contains WAVs of the album tracks.[/color][/font]

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