Sunday Driver – Review
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Sunday Driver
‘Rats / The Gayatri Mantra’
It’s both a shame and no surprise that the Cambridge sixpiece, Sunday Driver, haven’t garnered the recognition they perhaps ought to have during their nine years as a band. A melting pot outfit of characters, they marry traditional Indian sounds and instruments with very eccentric Englishness: maybe where they stumble.
This double A-side, taken from their album In The City Of The Dreadful Night, is a spectral whammy of instrumentation and mellifluous noise. The mischievous ‘Rats’ could easily lend itself as a backdrop to some creepy story by Neil Gaiman as Chandy Nath’s crystal cut vocal soars and bounds to muted sitar riffs and acoustic guitar. In contrast, ‘The Gayatri Mantra’ is a swathe of traditional tabla, sitar and clarinet with “repurposed Sanskrit” lyrics, Crispian Mills’s idea of heaven, no doubt. This kaboom of fusion listening is most certainly worth the pennies, if exclusively for those who can cope with the stop and change aspect of Sunday Driver’s musical nature.
Released 16th March on Bakul Bagan Records
www.myspace.com/sundaydriverinuk
by Plum Woodard
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Gayatri Mantra (the mother of the vedas), the foremost mantra in hinduism and hindu beliefs, inspires wisdom. Its meaning is that “May the Almighty God illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path”. The mantra is also a prayer to the “giver of light and life” – the sun (savitur).
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