In 2006, Paul Riordan, a musician from UK with over 35 years of experience in the music industry, got the permission to use samples from the SaReGaMa catalogue of early Bollywood soundtracks. A year later the outcome, something truly unique, was an album named Hour Glass.
From Hour Glass album here is a truly wonderful track titled 'He who holds the Mirror', it's a remix and a mesmerizing video collage by Paul Riordan of the famous Lata Mangeshkar song Aayenga Aanewala from Kamal Amrohi's year 1949 great film Mahal.
You can sample some more of his music at Paul Riordan's myspace profile
To download another track from Hourglass: do dil tootey from Heer Ranjha (1970), and to read more about his work check out his website bigmindmusic.com
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Trust me - the whole album is just beautiful.
i trust you. I loved that "do dil tootey" track also. Hope more people pick up this wonderful music!
I agree 'Do dil toote' or 'He who holds the mirror' is so beautiful it can make you cry - why oh why is this not the decades biggest selling album???
Anna