'The Bollywood Brass Band'
released 1999

BOLLCD2001

MP3s:

Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha - sambhangra remix

Track listing:

1. Loay Loay Aaja Mahi
(Come my love, while it's still light)

2. Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha
(Love is sweeter than sugar)

3. Kehna Hi Kya
(What is there to say)

4. (Ek Ho Gaye) Hum Aur Tum
(You and I are one)

5. Hawa Hawa
(Wind)

6. Pardesi Pardesi
(Stranger)

7. Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna
(Keep the henna on your hands)

REMIXES

8. Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha

9. Kehna Hi Kya

Liner Notes

What’s that noise? A brass band tuning up outside the window at 8 am on a Sunday. Can’t be. Stick my head under the pillow… Aargh! Those drums are LOUD!

Come rain or shine the Bollywood Brass Band wake up the neighbours and start the wedding guests dancing in the street early on weekend mornings up and down the country – a slice of modern Indian life, carrying the past on its back. The processions may run up the motorway, rather from one village to the next, but the band is there to start them off and play them in, the sun sparkling off the trumpets and the dhol drums in full voice telling the world that an Event is under way – Something Important is happening.

The songs range from the traditional, learnt head to head from the great Shyam Brass Band, to 90’s London arrangements of the latest Bombay hits, hot from the screen. The Bollywood Brass Band cook it all up in their special masala, because in music – and life – you use who you are and where you’re from.