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If you can find a record on Nonesuch called "The Pulse Of Tanam," pick it up. Vina music from India, and a fine one it is.
Also recommended:
The 4 CD box set "The Christ Tree" by the Trees Community, recently reissued in this deluxe form with 3 additional CDs worth of material by the wonderful Hand/Eye label, is a masterpiece of strange Christian folk music made by a travelling Christian dropout commune community in the early 1970s, and contains some seriously compelling and beautifully played music. This was a really far-out group for its time, and sounds very good even by contemporary standards of strangeness, yet they were also not "naive" players; they were very talented musicians. Taking influence from the middle and far east, weird chanting and beautiful folk sounds, this really is a true "lost gem." I'm not into "Jesus" music per se, but this transcends all that. It's a compelling listen, and the sincerity of its makers shines through. REALLY GOOD.
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