WHEN Jason Sookram first launched www.chutneymusic.com in 2018, he wanted it to be a pre-eminent resource for the chutney music artform and its artistes. Misson accomplished. The website not only ...

We're not talking about the jam, though Chutney does jam. It's a kind of music from Trinidad and Tobago that blends Indian folk, brought to the island nation by indentured Indians in the 19th century, ...

WHAT do you get when you combine Caribbean Hindustani and English, and add layers of the harmonium, dholak, synthesiser, tassa and electric guitar to the mix? Chutney music, of course. As language, ...

Bollywood and my mother's bhajans were the background music of my childhood. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, any and all yearning for lost homelands was set to the score of Love Story, Dostana, ...

The first Indians landed in Trinidad (sold to desperate Bhojpuris as “Chini-dad”) as sugar slaves (euphemistically known as ‘indentured workers) in 1848. In the more than 150 years since, the East ...

A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...

Vir Das, frontman of the comedy rock band Alien Chutney, on music and off-beat lyrics They sing about the ban on Maggie noodles or Game of Thrones or even the sabziwalli ― subjects that are sort of ...

Ashok Ramchunder was also a popular bhajan singer, frequently singing at several temple functions in different towns across South Africa. Johannesburg: Legendary Indian-origin singer Ashok Ramchunder, ...

(Trinidad Express) None of the 40 songs carded to perform at the Chutney Soca Monarch semi-final competition last night would have had lyrics glorifying either alcohol or domestic abuse, Southex chief ...

At first, it appeared to be Bollywood, but gradually it moved to a folk form and then incorporated some elements of a Spanish lambada. The beats were fast, the moves were catchy, and the expression ...

Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian ...