Love Trap

Love Trap
Susheela Raman
83041 Narada World

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This sensuous new album follows up U.K. vocalist Susheela Raman's critically-acclaimed 2001 debut. SALT RAIN is the album that made her a European sensation with a Mercury Prize nomination, BBC3 Awards for World Music win (Best Newcomer) and certified Gold sales in France.

Backed by an astonishing band that's a veritable "who's who" of world music - and covering songs by Joan Armatrading and Ethiopian legend Mahmoud Ahmed alongside ones based in the Tamil tradition - Susheela fine tunes her unique brand of sultry, evocative East/West fusion that has dazzled her audiences around the world.

LOVE TRAP is one step further along the path that stems from the encounter of Indian and Western music I grew up with as the daughter of Tamil emigrants living in Britain and Australia.

I describe this album as 'more beauty and more beast'; an altogether more concentrated distillation of South Indian classical music, North Indian folk and pop melodies, rock, funk, drum 'n' bass, and all the musical inspirations of the musicians playing with me.

We all have our own journeys to make, but the pathways of the musicians and the sounds on LOVE TRAP cross here in a way that is very real for me and, I hope, for you.

- Susheela Raman

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Selections

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	1	Love Trap
	2	Sarasa
	3	Amba
	4	Save Me
	5	Manasoloni
	6	Bliss
	7	Sakhi Maro
	8	Half Shiva Half Shakti
	9	Dhamavati
	10	Ye Meera Divanapan Hai
	11	Blue Lily Red Lotus

Artists and Instrumentation
Susheela Raman - vocals, tanpura on Love Trap
Sam Mills - guitar, drones, backing vocals on Amba
Aref Durvesh - tabla, dholak and tabla tarang
Djanuno Dabo - bongos, congas, claypot, shakers, backing vocals on Love Trap, Amba, Sarasa; second lead vocal on Sarasa
Tony Allen - drums
Hilaire Penda - bass
Vincent Segal - cello on Ye Meer Divanapan Hai, Manasoloni, Save Me, Blue Lily Red Lotus
Manos Achalinotopoulos - clarinet on Ye Meera Divanapan Hai, Dhamavati, Half Shiva Half Shakti, Love Trap, Kaval flute on Bliss
Albert Kuvezin - bass vocals on Manasoloni, Love Trap, Amba
Radik Tiuliush - overtone vocals and igil on Manasoloni, Amba; jaw harp on Sarasa
Dorantes - piano on Dhamavati and Bliss; handclaps on Bliss
Tom Diakite - kora on Sakhi Maro
Trevor Morais - drums on Save Me
Bobby Jocky - additional bass on Bliss
Ben Mendelson - acoustic Hawaiian guitar on Sarasa, barizouki and resozouki on Save Me
Iain Ballamy - saxophone on Love Trap
Sandhya Sanjana - backing vocals on Love Trap, Sarasa, Amba
Stuart Bruce - backing vocals on Amba