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K by Kula Shaker

K by Kula Shaker

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Key Information
Artist: Kula Shaker
Record Label: Columbia (USA)
Genre: Rock and Pop
Subgenre: Brit Pop
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Number of Discs: 1
Song List: Disc 1
: 1. Hey Dude
2. Knight on the Town
3. Temple of Everlasting Light
4. Govinda
5. Smart Dogs
6. Magic Theatre
7. Into the Deep
8. Sleeping Jiva
9. Tattva
10. Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There
11. 303
12. Start All Over
13. Hollow Man (parts 1 & 2)
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Details: Inital pressings of the U.S. release of K included a bonus CD single, TATTVA LUCKY 13 MIX. Kula Shaker: Crispian Mills (vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, tamboura); Jay Darlington (piano, Mellotron, organ); Alonza Bevan (piano, bass, tabla, background vocals); Paul Winterhart (drums). Additional personnel includes: The Kick Horns. Producers include: John Leckie, Crispian Mills. Engineers include: John Leckie. Recorded between January and May 1996. The Britpop quartet Kula Shaker appears to have raided the closets of its favorite bands in the making of its debut album. K contains a bluesy, retro ambience very much like The Stone Roses and Primal Scream. The full-throttled guitars sound like those of Oasis. And a hefty dose of Hindu mysticism runs rampant throughout--a la Cornershop. But Kula Shaker manages to make something original of all those borrowed parts. Rising above its influences, Kula Shaker creates a niche of Britpop in which transcendence is the goal. Amidst the blues-drenched guitars and t...
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