Thursday, December 17, 2009

SUSHEELA RAMAN (ABO#315)

SUSHEELA RAMAN
TRUST IN ME
(2001-2009)

When I first heard of Susheela Raman, this was on a 2001 compilation about new discovers in pop. At that time, I wasn't in a mainstream mood at all and, even if Susheela is not Mainstream at all, I felt it sounded like. But, to my big surprise, I really enjoyed this song, Trust In Me.
Until this year, I didn't hear of her and this ladies month made me immediately think of her. Don't know why.
Anyway, I then planned to listen to her whole discography, and dropped onto 4 extraordinary good albums. Susheela sings folk-pop songs with a very simple but clever construction. Her oriental origins can be heard on several of her songs and brings joyful colors to her melancolic pop. Her last album, 33 1/3, contains number of covers that are not unseless at all, for sure.



3 comments:

  1. le Love Trap avec GETACHEW MEKURIA est hallucinant.
    une perle, merci baistophe!

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  2. Hi Guys!

    I would love to listen to your Susheela compilation but looks like the link is dead :-( any chance for a re-up?
    Thanks a lot and BTW LOVE your blog!

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