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The Unseen Guest : Out there (SING,2004)**°°
Two musicians, Amith Narrayan and Declan Murray met when travelling through South-India. After weeks of jamming, busking, singing they became friends. A year later Amith mailed Declan asking to participate in making an album mixing Malayali music with western. With the help of Malayali musicians (tabla, mridangam, mandolin, veena, carnatic violin), and themselves singing, playing acoustic guitars, slide guitar, bass, piano, bongos, mandolin, and veena, it became actually for most tracks a mostly western styled, rather sweet singer-songwriter/pop music album with unusual instrumentation on it. Only a track like “Mangala Express” starts from an Carnatic/Indian mode, combined with Nick Drake like guitar and slide guitar. "Sandalista" I think is also a very succesful blend between the variety of styles. The production is perfect. As a singer/songwriter product it was very apreciated in the singer-songwriter radioshow on Radio Centraal, Antwerp led by Bob Theil.
This album will be released in Europe 11th of April.
PS. The album which came hereafter was much more purely a singer-songwriter album.
