Our Hindi-speaking readers will quickly recognize the words "Punjabi Yaya" as the Sanskrit phrase for "FUCK YEAH," and Aid or Invade would like to send a giant Punjabi Yaya out to Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh.
So what did Dr. Kumaresh do to deserve such acclaim? Something you've probably said you were going to do a million times, but were too lazy to get off your bloated Western ass and actually accomplish: She recorded overlapping layers of several compositions that were based on the grammars and mathematics of Indian Carnatic music using only a veena — a traditional Indian instrument that looks pretty much like a musical bong.
The result, as you might expect from someone with "Dr." prefixing her name and a seven-stringed hash-pipe, is nothing short of gawddamned muthafuggin' awesome. As each of the layered veenas (veenae? veenorum?) on Mysterious Duality creates a harmonic resonance that interacts with the others, they vibrate, buzz and take on a sonic life of their own remarkably akin to one of those drum kits on old Gene Vincent records. It's almost as if Kumaresh had been given a veena and tasked with independently inventing rock 'n' roll. Not that this CD is a foot-stomper — far from it — but you can actually feel the work and love that was put into it.
Verdict:
While no information is currently available as to exactly what sort of doctor Dr. Kumaresh is, let's just assume her specialty is emergency medicine; that way, she can sew your balls back on after Mysterious Duality rocks 'em off.
04/21/11
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