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Out On My Own
Sheila Chandra
49396 Narada World/Indipop

Sheila Chandra is one of the most recognized, best-selling world music artists and an early pioneer of the British Indipop music scene. OUT ON MY OWN was Chandra's first solo album and showcases the Indian influenced pop/rock direction she developed with the band, Moonsoon. Tablas, keyboards, guitar and sitars provide the backing for her evocative vocals and point the way forward to her experiments with voice and sound.

OUT ON MY OWN is the third of Chandra's five innovative Indipop label recordings proudly re-issued by Narada World.

"On OUT ON MY OWN, I developed the fusion of Western and Asian sounds and forms further, but I also began to use my voice as an instrument, woven and layered on tracks such as Prema, Shanti, Dharma, Satya and From A Whisper...To A Scream. Even at this stage of my musical development, the idea of dynamic, multi-tracked spoken percussion intrigued me, and I began to study it through absorption, as I did with all my vocal techniques...My intention, by experimenting on my solo albums was to deal directly with people's reactions to my musical growth; to fly in the face of the fear..."

-Sheila Chandra

Please visit Sheila Chandra's official website www.sheilachandra.com

Be sure to visit www.innerviews.org for an incredible, in-depth interview with Sheila Chandra...click here for the interview http://www.innerviews.org/inner/chandra.html

Founded in 1981, the Indipop label has been a forerunner in producing cutting-edge world music from the British-Indian scene, featuring artists like Sheila Chandra who are inspired to experiment with an eclectic fusion of styles and sounds. Sheila Chandra and label founder Steve Coe discuss the Indipop scene in a recent interview. Check out the transcription.

Also available from Sheila Chandra~

on Shakti:

on Real World Records:
ABONECRONEDRONE
WEAVING MY ANCESTORS’ VOICES
THE ZEN KISS

Selections

ORDER

	1	All You Want Is More
	2	Out On My Own
	3	Village Girl
	4	Storm Trance
	5	From A Whisper...To A Scream
	6	Prema, Shanti, Dharma, Satya
	7	Unchanged Malady
	8	Missing The Voice
	9	Fly To Me
	10	Songbird

Sheila Chandra - vocals, spoken bols, sargam Steve Coe - paino, surmandel, bells, synthesizer, cabassa Martin Smith - guitars, piano, surmandel, sitar, accordion, bells S.K. Kurup - morcing Dinesh - tabla on Out On My Own and Village Girl Ghulam Sarwar Sabri - tabla, ghatam Dharambir Singh - sitar on Out On My Own and Village Girl