This pan-Asian travelogue features musicians from China, India, Tatarstan, Indonesia, Japan, Turkey, and Iran. Aside from the unifying theme of the 400-hundred-year-old tea trade, the tunes have little in common and range from modern fusions to intriguing glimpses of rarely heard traditions. Assorted strings dominate the instrumental forces, especially harplike sounds, but the vocals are equally strong. Among the most fascinating tracks are Zulya's beguiling recollections of her Tatar childhood, Oki's tribute to his endangered Ainu (Japanese aboriginal) heritage, the Anatolian Turkish saz (lute) stylings of Okan Murat Ozturk, and an arrestingly percussive example of Iran's classical Persian disciplines as performed by Kamil Alipour. The set offers an array of unexpected pleasures from cultures that deserve to be better documented in the West. It is as mellow yet invigorating as the perfect tea break. A recipe for chai, a spicy Indian milk tea, is included.
"No Parachute" is a DVD collection of indie music videos from the best and brightest bands today, almost 90 minutes of great music set to animation, film and video. It is the first volume in a series of DVD's that provide a forum for music videos that you can't see on television by the likes of The Clientele, Entre Rios, Kimya Dawson, Le Mans, The Hidden Cameras, and Of Montreal. It just goes to show that you don't need a million-dollar budget to make a great music video.
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Essential Music Videos - 90's Indie Rock
