Flying Mountain Rec. 
Drongomala : Scale (UK/IND/GR/I,2005)*°°
At first, because I was used to hear Indojazz and other kinds of Indian Fusions, I was confused by rockartists who participated with Indian musicians without moving a dime from their Western standards (just like Harry Manx on this page, even more than rock artists like Unseen Guest and Church Of Betty, -also listed on the same review page-, who still did make attempts to fuse and blend Indian ideas with their own vision). Never-the-less the interest in Indian music is here, but perhaps a bit more for the use of their instruments and musicians, more than for the inner musical aspects. What I mostly would expect of people interested in using Indian instruments is a high degree of an intuitive stylistic aspect in music, emotionally driven or not, which is not the case here. Basically many tracks are slightly bluesy indiepoprock.
There has been put much effort in making well produced arrangements and in creating a full sound (there’s funky brass on 1, some backing vocal arrangements on some tracks, there are some traditional rock forms, and always present somewhere are the Indian instruments), and there’s an attempt to a certain groovyness. I think guitars and some keyboards were added afterwards in the studio.
After several listens I still didn't grab all aspects of the singer-songwriting inspiration yet.
