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Release Date: 2013Label: Monsoon Records, LLC
Taking its name from an ancient district in the Indian city of Mumbai, Falu’s Foras Road captures the enduring musical traditions and cultural history of India's centuries-old courtesan traditions. Singing in five different South Asian languages throughout the album, Falu blends traditions of Indian classical and folk music with Western pop, rock and electronic styles to create songs that explore themes of womanhood, romance, longing, love, and loss. Foras Road further explores the concept of Mehfil – an evening of courtly concerts traditionally presented in the homes or palaces of Indian royalty and nobles. Common to the Mehfil experience is the recitation and singing of Ghazal – a form of deeply insightful Sufi poetry written and composed to produce a mystical sense of transcendence of the everyday and the breakdown of traditional boundaries, such as between worldly and divine, lover and beloved, loss and longing, performer and listener.