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A selection of press through the Anjali Ages
| Rainy Day, Diva Magazine |
| Rainy Day, DJ Magazine |
| The World of Lady A, Daily Telegraph |
| The World of Lady A, DJ Magazine |
| The World of Lady A, Time Out |
| The World of Lady A, Bang |
| The World of Lady A, The Sunday Times |
| The World of Lady A, NME |
| 7X8, Time Out |
| 7X8/Stinging Sitars, Guardian |
| Anjali (album), The Guardian |
| Anjali, Uncut |
| Anjali, Seven - Album of the week |
| Anjali, NME |
| Anjali, Le Figaro magazine |
| Nebula, Seven |
| Lazy Lagoon, Mixmag-Single of the month |
| Sheer Witchery, Time Out |
| Aquila, NME |
| Feline Woman, Jockey Slut |
| Ju Ju, DJ |
| Ju Ju, Jockey Slut |
| Ju Ju, NME |
| Maharani, NME |
| Maharani, DJ |
| Maharani, Jockey Slut |
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The World of Lady A, Daily TelegraphWhen Gareth Gates meets the Kumars and goes Bollywood in a video, it?s safe to say that the ?new Asian underground? has comfortably arrived overground. One of its core figures, Anjali Bhatia, has here sculpted a more sophisticated, vibrant sound than the one presented on 2000?s more sample-based debut, Anjali. Though it may not exactly put her up there with the Pop Idols (she?s a bit too sophisticated for that), it should by rights ensure her a Mercury Music Prize nomination.
The World of Lady A is ravishingly exotic, embracing thunderously funky soundtracking, hip-hop beat mash-ups echoes of spy movies and bhangra parties, and, on the closing track, Stinging Sitars x 9, an inevitable hoedown from the school of Ravi Shankar. Through it all, there?s Bhatia?s soft, cooing voice, pitched between breathy Jane Birkinism (Rainy Day) and Billie Holliday seduction (Seven x Eight). Sleeved in lurid pinks, yellows and reds, the album recalls the exultant psychedelia of Primal Scream?s Screamadelica. This is a hugely sexy record by which it?s almost impossible not to be aroused on some level.
The Daily Telegraph
30 August 2003
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