Call of the Valley

I'm not well-versed enough to truly appreciate this music but I love it to death.

Really interesting, beautiful stuff. I need to be in the right mood for it, but when I am, it’s great.

3.5/5

The combination of drones, complex but lowkey & low tempo percussion, looping recursive melodies, and general spaciousness makes this a very relaxing meditative album. It remains very understated and doesn't work it's way up to an intense peak the way other Indian Classical Music I'v heard does.

I listened to the remake on Spotify (since that's where the link took me) and the original on YouTube Music. The YouTube one is so much better! I love music like this in the background while I'm at work. 3/5 for the Spotify remake 5/5 for the original.

This was beautiful, relaxing instrumental Indian music. Apparently the version on Apple Music is not the correct album, I had to find it on YouTube.

I'm a newbie with Indian classical music, but I love what I've heard so far. This album is absolutely gorgeous.

I never really wanted to turn it off, so that's good. But I didn't enjoy it, and I'll never put it on again. Maybe it's super important to what was going on in the 60s, but it's not for me.

Sitar overdose.

Interesting sound. Enjoy the Indian classical vibe. 3/5

Sublime experience somewhat ruined by having to listen to it on YouTube (FOUR ads in the first track alone).
I say sublime, because it somehow fit perfectly with taking a train through a frozen prairie, leaving the bustle of city life behind me if only for a day.

March 28, 2023

Found this quite relaxing...or at least I would have if the version on YouTube wasn't interrupted every 5 mins by ads. The versions on Spotify and Tidal seem to be a modern re-recording with different artists done in 2012. I'd like to find a better quality version and listen again. I enjoyed it, but on the other hand I don't really have much knowledge of Indian music to compare it to!

Enjoyable and interesting music, definitely worthy of the list.

Good stuff!

I'm guessing there probably wasn't much like this when it came out, and it still sounds fresh and vibrant. Occasionally gets a bit Muzaky, but I don't think this detracts from the album overall.

Hope you ended up listening on YouTube cause the Spotify link was not the right album. I don't really have much to say other than this is obviously one the seed crystals for the eastern influence on rock music in the late 60s besides Ravi Shankar.

The was a very different experience that I don't know how to evaluate, but the album contains some good instrumental songs to keep focus during the workday. The Wikipedia page is simple but it looks like this album influenced great songwriter that I admire, so 3 stars is fine to me.

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