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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Haunting sounds

For sometime I have been considering collecting sounds that have a haunting effect on my senses. Every now and then I will come across music that can be categorized as visceral or primitive and speaks to us directly by reaching out and grabbing our soul. The substance of the sound sometimes appeals to that which is primal in all of us. Of course this is all very subjective and may not have same effect on everybody as it may have on me but there is some music that has universally subliminal in its effect.
I am not referring to music that I connect to because I grasp the meaning or I like the genre or for that matter even because its on top of charts.  
I must admit that I do have a weakness for crooning music from all parts of the world whether its found in blues or wailing reggae or techno or folk or sufi or even regional music in places like vietnam or thailand.

Let me start with the one I came across today and then follow it up with others that I may have heard in the past.  Going to just label all these as haunting sounds even though they may all not be that haunting but you get  my point.



Pakistani music that sounds like sindhi or punjabi I am not sure but I like the sound.



One of my all time favorites by Billie Holiday.




UK based group indi-pop group Bhangra knights song "husan" featured in a Peugot commercial in the 90s.





"Por una cabeza" from the album "project tango". This is one of Hollywood's favorite pick to be used as the score for depicting intense (its never casual in movies) Tango scenes. You must have perhaps heard it in movies like "scent of woman", "True lies", "Schindler's list" etc.




Baul music : Moroner dine kemon kore bolbi Hari (On your last breath, think how will you remember your Lord), by Babukishan Das Baul, in Bengali via Youtube