Classical ragas return next week! Until then, some Indian and Indian-inspired soundscapes suggestive of her "heartbreaking, gorgeous, hallucinatory, dazzling, kaleidoscopic, mind-blowing grandeur and loud reality" (Anne Lamott).

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. The Inevitable (2000)
All India Radio: Martin Kennedy, Aidan Halloran - Indian street recordings
Inevitable Records, INV001
58:17
(Apologies for the occasional square drum machine track.)

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

2. Dawn at Reewalsar Lake (2007)
Recorded by Peter Kutin
Giza í ruh: Field Recordings from Northern India
http://www.khora.org.uk/pages/Peter_Kutin/Kutin_Lercher.html
7:32

*3. Hildegard Westerkamp: Gently Penetrating: Beneath the Sounding Surfaces of Another Place (1997)
14:03

4. Disco Bhangra: Wedding Bands from Rajasthan (rec. Jaipur, India 1989)
Disk Union, AVAN 031
33:16
(Prakash Band, Choutou Band, Village Band, Babu Band, Gulab Panjab Band, and Temple Boy.)
33'

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

5. Doug Cox, Salil Bhatt & Ramkumar Mishra: Fish Pond (2006)
Doug Cox - resophonic guitar, Salil Bhatt - satvik veena [modified guitar], Ramkumar Mishra - tabla
Slide to Freedom
NorthernBlues Music, NBM0039
8:34

*6. Hildegard Westerkamp: Into the Labyrinth (2000)
15:04

*7. Hildegard Westerkamp: Attending to Sacred Matters (2002)
26:24

*Tracks 3, 6 & 7
Hildegard Westerkamp: Into India: A Composer's Journey
Earsay Productions, es02002