Kronos Quartet goes Bollywood

Kronos Quartet went for an Indian theme on their latest album

You've Stolen My Heart: Songs From R.D. Burman's Bollywood.

 

Chamber group known for experimentation records Indian album

By PARITOSH BANSAL
Reuters

 

David Harrington of the Grammy-winning string ensemble Kronos Quartet

says his group jumped at the chance to work with legendary Indian singer

Asha Bhosle and take its eclectic chamber music to Bollywood.

In choosing songs for the group's latest album, all of them composed

by Bhosle's late husband, R.D. Burman, Harrington said he selected

those that appealed to his ear as a musician, with no understanding

of their Hindi and Bengali lyrics.

It wasn't until days before Kronos began recording last summer that

Harrington realized the group had put together a collection of plaintive

love songs.

The result was You've Stolen My Heart: Songs From R.D. Burman's

Bollywood , to be released today by the New York-based independent

label Nonesuch Records.

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