Dilip Roy. Namaskaar Melodies From India.

Originally sold only on Air India flights as an aural souvenir of their homeland, this record deserves a wide recognition. This rare 1983 session credited to Dilip Roy could be easily labeled as a forerunner of the worldbeat fusion mania. Dilip was an arranger and orchestra leader for virtually all of Ananda ShankOriginally sold only on Air India flights as an aural souvenir of their homeland, this record deserves a wide recognition. This rare 1983 session credited to Dilip Roy could be easily labeled as a forerunner of the worldbeat fusion mania. Dilip was an arranger and orchestra leader for virtually all of Ananda Shankar's recordings. A dj friendly release, the album features moody and exotic sitar coupled with electric guitars, synthesizers, flute, vibes, organ, a string section and some strange and wonderful percussion. Rare groove the eastern way, it is time to embrace such an exotic masterpiece.ar's recordings. A dj friendly release, the album features moody and exotic sitar coupled with electric guitars, synthesizers, flute, vibes, organ, a string section and some strange and wonderful percussion. Rare groove the eastern way, it is time to embrace such an exotic masterpiece.

Label: Life Goes On Records – LIFE008
Released: 2021 (1983)
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Indian Classical, Folk, Fusion

Tracklist
A1 Yaman
A2 Way To Ladakh
A3 Priyatama
A4 Village Belle
A5 Hansadhwani
A6 Nostalgia
B1 Call Of The Flute
B2 Camel Rider
B3 Dhoop Chhaon
B4 Pahadi
B5 Nattu Padangal
B6 Vidaai
Companies, etc.

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Copyright © – The Gramophone Company Of India Ltd.

Credits

Bass Guitar – Douglas Barlow
Concept By, Executive Producer – Biswanath Chatterjee, Om Segan
Dholak – Dipankar Acharya
Drum – Samiran Mukherjee
Flute – Alokenath Dey*
Guitar – Swapan Sen
Mandolin – Asish Gupta
Mridangam – S. Shekhar
Orchestrated By, Music By – Dilip Roy
Organ – Amar Laha
Percussion – Angshu Khastagir, Bansidhar Roy, Durga Baral, Nalu Mitra, Sital Adhikari
Producer, Photography By – Air India
Recording Supervisor – Susanta Banerjee*
Santoor – Himangshu Biswas
Sarod – Srikumar Banerjee
Sitar – Sunil Das
Synthesizer – Amiya Mandal, Prasanta Sen
Tabla – Soven Dey, Swapan Mishra
Veena – Mrs. Kanthamani Rangan
Vibraphone – Anto Menezes
Violin – Ananta Mondal, Asish Mallick, Debjyoti Mishra, Ivon Rodricks, M/s Joe Pareira, Mrs. Basantha Kannan, Soumitra Byapari, Subrata Pramanick

Notes
Instrumental
Conceived & executed by Om Segan and Biswanath Chatterjee