Rupa: Disco Jazz Vinyl LP

Highly sought after '82 Indian disco/fusion LP given first official reissue. This fiendishly elusive and addicting LP has been harder and harder to come by as original copies have topped out at upwards of $750 USD. Thanks to the power of the algorithm, the album (and specifically the track "Aaj Shanibar") reached a wider audience, pushing the demand for the LP - and thus a proper reissue - through the roof. While not straight disco, and certainly not jazz, Rupa Biswas' sole release from 1982 creates the perfect fusion platter: East meets West, synthesizer and guitars meet sarod, and Bollywood meets Balearic to create four brilliant cuts of musical genius. Recorded at Living Room Studios in Calgary by a "crack team" of Indian and Canadian studio cats, Rupa and the production crew groove through the tracks like a hot knife through butter. The opener, "Moja Bhari Moja" locks us in with the funky baseline and rhythm guitar before Rupa's vocal's steal the show. "East West Shuffle" sounds li