SOHAIL RANA Khyber Mail Pakistan 1970 SITAR Funk Killer
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Khyber Mail" EMI Gramophone Company of Pakistan LKDE5000 (1970) flipback 1st issue with the rare picture inner, with the lp now in a vpi antistatic inner with the lp and sleeves all safe in a new poly outer. This cleaned well on a professional machine and plays fine. We pack very securely in new corrugated boxes.
"Sohail Rana, versatile maestro of film and pop composition, and leading force in pioneering the cultural landscape of modern Pakistan. His longplay masterpiece, Khyber Mail is stocked with groovy eastern moods, electric organ, sitar soul and surf guitar." Alan Bishop (Sublime Frequencies / Sun City Girls)
In 1969, EMI Pakistan funded Rana's most ambitious project to date, Khyber Mail, which would run the length of a full 12" disc (a seldom pressed format in Pakistan) with the hope of appealing to a wider global audience. The resulting concept album, designed to invoke images and sounds of a high speed Pakistani freight train travelling from Karachi to Peshawar, was dominated by Sohail's whining and addictive electric keyboard and a motoric rhythm section of beaty percussion and sitars introducing a form of radical patchwork pop and mechanical music to a warm receptive audience. By combining the folk music of the Sindh and the Punjab with maverick sounds, signatures and rhythms, Khyber Mail marks a landmark shift in the Pakistani pop industry kick-starting a lengthy career for one of its best loved musical patrons while setting a challenging new standard for the "plugged-in" Lollywood pop scene that would explode at the turn of the decade. All aboard and full steam ahead for the Khyber Mail Twist
Side A:
1. Khyber Mail
2. Al-Vida
3. Saat Maatray
4. Soul Sitar-for sound sample click here
5. Harvest Time
Side B:
1. Cobra Sway
2. Indus Waves
3. Chandni Aur Tum
4. Alladin
5. Shahbaz Qalandar
Highly sought after, Rare Pakistani Sitar funk LP. Should apeal to mods with a taste for the freakbeat psych out sound if you bear in mind that 1970 in Pakistan was like the 60's in the west!.
This record is visually Near Mint, in a Mint minus sleeve, labels are clean. Plays Near Mint also.
Good selection of rarities in my list this week..
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