Call of the Valley

Good, but I'm not familiar with Indian music enough to have thought anything other than "Sounds like Indian music!".

A nice enough album. Was more like background noise though because it sounded like 1 long continuous song

3 ⭐️

Love to see a bit of variety on the list and some world music too. Call of the Valley is such a pleasant calming album

Ymmärrän kyllä miks esim. Beatles meni tästä sekaisin. Kaunis levy.

I read other reviews and listened to this version, which seems to be the correct one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1zzVqrCEeU&list=RDO1zzVqrCEeU

The version on Apple Music/Spotify starts sounding more like 2000s-mall-spa album, so I figured that was the 2012 "remastered" trash everyone refers to.

The original is wonderful, pastoral, peaceful, transports you. 5*
It's unfortunate you can't easily stream the original.
This put me on a kick of raga music, fantastic.
Highlights: ahir bhairav, nat bhairav

A wiwi a wiwiw a wiwiwiw waa🐈

I quite liked it, to be honest. It was pretty soothing background music while working. Not anything I'd be tempted to listen to on purpose, but pleasant enough.

Not a bad instrumental album. Not something I'm likely to return to, but decent background music. 3/5

𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 is a serene and evocative journey through the sounds of Kashmir, performed by three masters: Shivkumar Sharma on the shimmering santur, Hariprasad Chaurasia on bansuri, and Brij Bhushan Kabra on slide guitar. For many western listeners, the santur will be a revelation — its crystalline tones, blended with flute and guitar, create a soundscape that feels both timeless and fresh. While rooted in classical ragas, the music flows gently and accessibly, making it one of the most inviting introductions to Indian classical music. A beautiful and meditative record, deserving of its reputation.

I’m a sucker for blues rock. The more harmonica the better. These British boys were feeling it! It isn’t quite complex enough to rate five stars, some of the lyrics are clunky, but I did enjoy listening to this.

The Good: We know who’s calling us…
The Bad: It’s not a booty call…
The Ugly: nothing, as it’s a purdy valley!

Amazingly non-offensive, relaxing background music.
I managed to get a load of work done, and will definitely want to play this album again in the future when it’s night time and I am trying to catch-up…

So, 4*… because the like the Call of the Valley

Finally something interesting

This was good. Great background music. Would definitely listen again.

Much like the bossanova and salsa records I've gotten previously, this is one of those "It's really good, but it's not the type of music I'd go out of my way to simply listen to". For me, it's good soundtrack or background music.

As such, it's simply getting a 3.

What I will say is that at the least, I can see this type of music's influence, usually in prog metal, weirdly. Tool and Intronaut use this style of drumming from time to time, and it's generally cool in those contexts.

This one was much more fun than I thought it would be!! #albumsky #musicsky #musicchallenge 3.5/5

This is an artist new to me and at first I thought it was wonderful, beautifully played instruments with an ethereal quality . But then it just sounded like one of those albums you could buy to help you to sleep, like with dolphins cheeping.

So after the initial interest it felt like no tracks stood out for me which is a shame.

Relaxing and pastoral, but perhaps a bit too much so. I liked the faster portions more and wished there had been more like that. Enjoyable listening, but I've liked other Indian music on this list more.

I dig this. It's a nice departure from my standard listening. So easy to get lost in the consideration of the rhythms and melodies not normally present in western music. Love the tabla work throughout.

Cool and calming

Out of my depth