Nights at the Circus is the debut album of London based Dj and musician Bishi (Bishnu Priya), it's something quite unique and I'm still trying to work out whether I like it or not. Bishi has Bengali roots and attends the Ravi Shankar School in Delhi most summers - this album is witness to that as she rocks out fairly powerfully and quite impressively on a sitar. It's not her sitar playing that I'm unsure about though, it's the vocals.
I'm not overly keen on high-pitched vocals as you've probably gathered from my numerous music reviews, Bishi tends to go for those long Bollywoodesque vocals every one in a while but also makes use of her posh British accent to try to pull off a sort of aristocratic style of rapping!
The sitar playing is well combined with electronic music, to create a crazy world music, electro, slight hint of techno and a hint of pop mash up! This albums inventive and even if I don't like every part of it, it's something that definitely deserves more listeners.
The main single from the album is "Never Seen Your Face" and my view of it suffers from the high vocals but I've decided I quite like it anyhow and it's a pretty funky pop number with a catchy beat and vocals that get better with every listen. A surprisingly Abbaesque song is "On My Own Again" complete with strings, sitar and accordion the variation on the album is something that never ceases to amaze.
"Nights at the Circus" - 3:57
"Magus" - 3:28
"I Am You" - 4:13
"The Swan" - 3:32
"Grandmother's Floor" - 2:38
"Never Seen Your Face" - 4:26
"Nightbus" - 2:58
"After the Party" - 3:20
"Vicious Stories" - 4:37
"Broken Creatures" - 3:28
"On My Own Again" - 3:50
"Namaste" - 4:48
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