Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Rishi Bonneville
That’s right. We are hitting you with a one-two Indo-Caribbean combination of boomshots, in recognition of the fact that today millions (billions?) of people worldwide are commemorating the hindu festival of lights called Diwali or Deepavali, an officially recognized holiday in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Myanmar, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia and Fiji. So get your house in order, raise a diya (or lighter) and run through the following selection of tunes that connect West Indians with their namesakes on the Indian subcontinent.
This list is awesome! do you all have mp3 of the songs to share?
Mafe / we don’t have permission to post mp3s of these songs but if you just google the title with ‘mp3 download’ you can probably find a lot of them online. Otherwise, there is always iTunes
OR if you’re in NY just come by Basement Bhangra or Rice & Peas and we’ll play them for you on the big speakers
cheers // Eddie