Ambient - Instrumental - Cultural Music of India

"Spacemusic inspired by the sound and spirit of India"
This is the first program centered on the theme of music of India, and it is thus an older program broadcast by Hearts of Space Radio Show in their first official year of broadcasting. This hour of music is an excellent collection of music from the land of sands, and beautiful native dances. The other five hours of music will be uploaded here within the next 24 hours. Enjoy, and as ever, PLEASE SEED.

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
Indian music seems to cycle in and out of popularity in the west. The last time it peaked was over twenty years ago. Led by the Beatles, many musicians in the U.S. and Europe became fascinated by the elaborate rhythms and exotic tunings of this very different sounding world of music. Most of them didn't become players of classical Indian music — that can take a lifetime — but they did adapt some of the instruments and stylistic elements of Indian music, into their own creations.

On this program, we'll hear music from New Zealand by DAVID PARSONS, from Germany by KLAUS SCHULZE, and from the U.S. by TONY SCOTT, DAVID and AMANDA HUGHES, and STEPHEN COUGHLIN. Indian instruments like the sitar, the sarod, the tamboura, and the bansuri flute combine with Western zithers, clarinets and synthesizers.

We begin with RAVI SHANKAR's music from the film GANDHI.

The program title is borrowed, with much affection, from French film maker Louis Malle's classic documentary series": PHANTOM INDIA — on this hour of Hearts of Space.