Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1932-1939
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Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1932-1939
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Compiled by Bodega Pop's Gary Sullivan, 'Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1' collects some of South Asian cinema's earliest hits, expressive, emotional tape-saturated gear from the era's superstars such as Govindrao Tembe, K.L. Saigal and Pankaj Mullick.
Not long after raiding Brighton Beach's CD stores for remnants of the Russian Empire, Sullivan is back on Death Is Not The End with another celebration of the US immigrant experience, this time focusing on South Asia. It was after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act lifted "non-European" quotas that the Tri-State Area began to welcome a larger amount of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants, and by the '90s, there were record and video stores peppered throughout community hotspots like Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey and Jackson Heights in Queens, where these outlets outnumbered the conventional record shops in the whole of New York city. Sullivan tracked through these neighborhoods in search of music that would help him tell the story of India's film industry before the partition.
The first "talkie" appeared in the country in 1931 and the fact that it featured music - performed by Alam Ara - wasn't a surprise to anyone in the region. Since at least the Gupta dynasty, Indian entertainment had included music, and even before then it'd been an important part of culture, providing an emotional connection to the gods. And in the early days of cinema, before music could be dubbed over a lip-synching actor, the stars had to be talented singers. The most famous of these singer-actors was K.L. Saigal, who begins and ends the compilation, and his unique untrained voice links us to a more familiar, more modern era. It was Saigal who inspired Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most influential singers, so you can understand how important this era was to the subcontinent. If you're into classic '60s and '70s Bollywood/Lollywood material, hearing this foundational, pre-partition trove is a treat.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Compiled by Bodega Pop's Gary Sullivan, 'Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1' collects some of South Asian cinema's earliest hits, expressive, emotional tape-saturated gear from the era's superstars such as Govindrao Tembe, K.L. Saigal and Pankaj Mullick.
Not long after raiding Brighton Beach's CD stores for remnants of the Russian Empire, Sullivan is back on Death Is Not The End with another celebration of the US immigrant experience, this time focusing on South Asia. It was after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act lifted "non-European" quotas that the Tri-State Area began to welcome a larger amount of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants, and by the '90s, there were record and video stores peppered throughout community hotspots like Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey and Jackson Heights in Queens, where these outlets outnumbered the conventional record shops in the whole of New York city. Sullivan tracked through these neighborhoods in search of music that would help him tell the story of India's film industry before the partition.
The first "talkie" appeared in the country in 1931 and the fact that it featured music - performed by Alam Ara - wasn't a surprise to anyone in the region. Since at least the Gupta dynasty, Indian entertainment had included music, and even before then it'd been an important part of culture, providing an emotional connection to the gods. And in the early days of cinema, before music could be dubbed over a lip-synching actor, the stars had to be talented singers. The most famous of these singer-actors was K.L. Saigal, who begins and ends the compilation, and his unique untrained voice links us to a more familiar, more modern era. It was Saigal who inspired Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most influential singers, so you can understand how important this era was to the subcontinent. If you're into classic '60s and '70s Bollywood/Lollywood material, hearing this foundational, pre-partition trove is a treat.
Boomkat Product Review:
Compiled by Bodega Pop's Gary Sullivan, 'Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1' collects some of South Asian cinema's earliest hits, expressive, emotional tape-saturated gear from the era's superstars such as Govindrao Tembe, K.L. Saigal and Pankaj Mullick.
Not long after raiding Brighton Beach's CD stores for remnants of the Russian Empire, Sullivan is back on Death Is Not The End with another celebration of the US immigrant experience, this time focusing on South Asia. It was after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act lifted "non-European" quotas that the Tri-State Area began to welcome a larger amount of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants, and by the '90s, there were record and video stores peppered throughout community hotspots like Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey and Jackson Heights in Queens, where these outlets outnumbered the conventional record shops in the whole of New York city. Sullivan tracked through these neighborhoods in search of music that would help him tell the story of India's film industry before the partition.
The first "talkie" appeared in the country in 1931 and the fact that it featured music - performed by Alam Ara - wasn't a surprise to anyone in the region. Since at least the Gupta dynasty, Indian entertainment had included music, and even before then it'd been an important part of culture, providing an emotional connection to the gods. And in the early days of cinema, before music could be dubbed over a lip-synching actor, the stars had to be talented singers. The most famous of these singer-actors was K.L. Saigal, who begins and ends the compilation, and his unique untrained voice links us to a more familiar, more modern era. It was Saigal who inspired Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most influential singers, so you can understand how important this era was to the subcontinent. If you're into classic '60s and '70s Bollywood/Lollywood material, hearing this foundational, pre-partition trove is a treat.
Boomkat Product Review:
Compiled by Bodega Pop's Gary Sullivan, 'Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1' collects some of South Asian cinema's earliest hits, expressive, emotional tape-saturated gear from the era's superstars such as Govindrao Tembe, K.L. Saigal and Pankaj Mullick.
Not long after raiding Brighton Beach's CD stores for remnants of the Russian Empire, Sullivan is back on Death Is Not The End with another celebration of the US immigrant experience, this time focusing on South Asia. It was after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act lifted "non-European" quotas that the Tri-State Area began to welcome a larger amount of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants, and by the '90s, there were record and video stores peppered throughout community hotspots like Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey and Jackson Heights in Queens, where these outlets outnumbered the conventional record shops in the whole of New York city. Sullivan tracked through these neighborhoods in search of music that would help him tell the story of India's film industry before the partition.
The first "talkie" appeared in the country in 1931 and the fact that it featured music - performed by Alam Ara - wasn't a surprise to anyone in the region. Since at least the Gupta dynasty, Indian entertainment had included music, and even before then it'd been an important part of culture, providing an emotional connection to the gods. And in the early days of cinema, before music could be dubbed over a lip-synching actor, the stars had to be talented singers. The most famous of these singer-actors was K.L. Saigal, who begins and ends the compilation, and his unique untrained voice links us to a more familiar, more modern era. It was Saigal who inspired Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most influential singers, so you can understand how important this era was to the subcontinent. If you're into classic '60s and '70s Bollywood/Lollywood material, hearing this foundational, pre-partition trove is a treat.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Compiled by Bodega Pop's Gary Sullivan, 'Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1' collects some of South Asian cinema's earliest hits, expressive, emotional tape-saturated gear from the era's superstars such as Govindrao Tembe, K.L. Saigal and Pankaj Mullick.
Not long after raiding Brighton Beach's CD stores for remnants of the Russian Empire, Sullivan is back on Death Is Not The End with another celebration of the US immigrant experience, this time focusing on South Asia. It was after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act lifted "non-European" quotas that the Tri-State Area began to welcome a larger amount of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants, and by the '90s, there were record and video stores peppered throughout community hotspots like Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey and Jackson Heights in Queens, where these outlets outnumbered the conventional record shops in the whole of New York city. Sullivan tracked through these neighborhoods in search of music that would help him tell the story of India's film industry before the partition.
The first "talkie" appeared in the country in 1931 and the fact that it featured music - performed by Alam Ara - wasn't a surprise to anyone in the region. Since at least the Gupta dynasty, Indian entertainment had included music, and even before then it'd been an important part of culture, providing an emotional connection to the gods. And in the early days of cinema, before music could be dubbed over a lip-synching actor, the stars had to be talented singers. The most famous of these singer-actors was K.L. Saigal, who begins and ends the compilation, and his unique untrained voice links us to a more familiar, more modern era. It was Saigal who inspired Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most influential singers, so you can understand how important this era was to the subcontinent. If you're into classic '60s and '70s Bollywood/Lollywood material, hearing this foundational, pre-partition trove is a treat.
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