Anyone heard her yet? I think it's the real deal. An Indian-American Patti Smith with a gotdamn harmonium, who somehow doesn't end up sounding pretentious!



When people get all "Lady GaGa is an exciting new artist," stuff like this puts it back into proper perspective.
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OK, when someone posts about her in a month, I'm so gonna link back

I saw them when they opened for Boss Hog here last month. They were cool. But what the hell is that thing Shilpa is playing?

sextonseven said:

Yay! Response! Sorry I missed it!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonium

It's apparently a harmonium, although it just seems like a big-old accordion to me.

I really, really am digging her album, one of the few new ones that I keep going back to. She's totally psycho, and doesn't really seem like the most pleasant person, but that voice and those melodies are just classic to me.

MendesCity said:

Ah, that's what you said in the first post. I should pay attention more when I read these threads. Yeah, it's like an accordion laid flat. I had never seen one before.

Harmonium is to accordian what steel guitar is to electric guitar.

BlaqueKnight said:

Are you making that comparison because of the posted clip?

sextonseven said:

Yep. Gotta be honest. I haven't checked her out in depth YET. I will give her a shot, though.
I'm not hearing anything new in her voice.

BlaqueKnight said:

She sounds nothing like Amy in my opinion. It's gritty, and definitely not as technically accomplished, but I also feel like it's more genuine and less imitative of other singers (even though I compared her to Patti Smith in the original post )

What you don't get from this clip is that a lot of the album rocks. Like, hard.
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BlaqueKnight said:

It's much less notable in a lot of the album tracks.

http://www.myspace.com/shilparay