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Follow on Google News | Gypsy Music: Can It Make You Feel More Free?Pop music is becoming ever more corporate, and yet sales are down. Young people are looking for a musical revolution akin to the one their boomer parents experienced. They are seeking something more spiritual, perhaps even more religious.
“For us, music is not just about being number one on the charts...” commented Indian born veteran singer/guitarist Mario Vickram Sen of the world-music pop band, Inner Gypsy, “but about communication, and sharing an independence of spirit which has the capacity to build larger communities of inspired people.” You can hear snippets or purchase the album “Gypsychology” “We want people to be able to think for themselves...” Their band – Inner Gypsy – has just released its debut album, “Gypsychology,” “We’ve also created our own new religion,” laughs Tiffany. “It doesn’t have any rules. You can behave however you like.” The couple have just published a novel about this new religion – which Mario claims was psychically transmitted to him by the ghost of an author twenty years dead. It’s hard to tell sometimes if this fun loving couple are just putting us all on, or if they really mean it. The music certainly sounds like they meant it. It ranges from blistering flamenco-style riffs, to sweet love ballads, to extended passionate Indian-sounding virtuosic improvisations. They even have an updated, funky cover of the Sonny and Cher classic, “I Got You Babe.” Meanwhile, the novel, “The High Priest of Prickly Bog” (which Mario insists he merely ‘typed’ for dead author, Hiram Blunt) incorporates an alternate reality (or two) of Orwellian proportions, which includes time travel, social criticism, a murder mystery, several absurdly funny characters who it is hard not to like, and of course that new religion: The Intergalactic Temple of the Great God Bongo. # # # My Pet Goat Records is an independent record label in the NYC/NJ area dedicated to the promotion of new and interesting types of music. You can hear snippets or purchase the album “Gypsychology” Website: www.mypetgoatrecords.com End
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