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    Posted: May 04 2012 at 22:01
Originally posted by HolyMoly

You could check out the Boredoms' "Seadrum/House of Sun" album.  Two 20-minute tracks, the first of which is a fast, rollicking instrumental with lots of piano trills and wordless vocals, and the second of which is a droning bliss-out instrumental featuring the sitar.

I love the sitar too, so I'd be interested in seeing other responses to this thread.  I have that Samsara album and enjoy it a lot, btw.

 
This is also far out ... and the only other thing I have ever heard that sounded close or similar is the 2nd cut on AD2's Wolf City album. The track with the German name, which is pure electronica that is really far out.
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Originally posted by Kotro

 
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Far out ... I finally have the list of 3 new things to get ... thanks a great bunch. This is really nice, too!


Edited by moshkito - May 14 2012 at 13:55
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Originally posted by cstack3

You can hardly improve on the real thing (classical Indian raga)!!  

When I need an electric fix of Indian flavored guitar, John McLaughlin usually fits the bill...this cat is GOD!


 
Yeah ... an album that we all should have.
 
You want to know what a "raga" and "music" is all about? ... yeah ... there it is!
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The best sitar use in prog-related music ever:



Pentangle's "Once I Had A Sweetheart", with most beautiful lead vocals (including the haunting Bert Jansch vocals in the outro), a restrained jazzy drum backing and a trippy sitar backing absolutely unlike the contemporary



"House Carpenter" has that beautiful banjo-sitar-interplay which I had never thought to be that successful before listening to it the first time.


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Grovjobb - Skogsgläntan Vättarnas Fest

Possibly my favourite use of sitar by any prog act. No YouTube link unfortunately. :(
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Loove Atoms suggestion by Andre Fertier's Clivage. Their 77 debut Regina Astris is equally essential.



Baba Yaga - Mokscha. The last six minutes are missing. Far out kosmiche sitar. Somehow similar to the one by Boredoms.


Ananda Shankar. 70's indian grooves (Secret Chiefs 3 covers this one live)



I have plenty more I could suggest... just need to think some. Is more jazzy stuff 'n' sitar interesting too? 

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Finnish band Aalto would be my recommendation among to the mentioned classics. Smile
Two sitar-flavoured links to their MySpace player, for songs Tulet and Tuulilabyrintit.



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Hi,
 
Ohhh boy ... here I go getting broke again with things to buy!
 
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Just remembered this thread!
I'm currently listening to an old Swedish psych folk album called Handgjort (Self-made), which has a fair deal of sitar incorporated.

Here is Farmer Jack off it - he's pretty slow to begin with, but once the LSD gets going, he starts swirling like a ballet-dancer on rollerskates:
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^^ Nice!!
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