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June 2008
Rolling Stone India
The voice that had producer John H Hammond – he scouted Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen – champion it, is on the revival route. Asha Puthli in her upcoming album Lost, shows us that she can still play the game even after over two decades. Her last album Only the Headaches Remain released in 1982, and now she awaits the release of her ninth solo album in September, though only in Europe under the Kyrone label.
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Fury, the latest novel from Salman Rushdie, has been described as a barely disguised treatment of the author’s own marriage break-up, his flight to New York and his subsequent relationship with the arrestingly beautiful actress Padma Lakshmi. But this may not be the first time that Rushdie has drawn on a real- life muse in the creation of his fiction. His previous novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, centers around the life of a fictional Indian rock star, Vina Apsara, and how she found fame in the West. Apsara’ s character is remarkable for her self-possession, arrogance and total self-belief; she is worshipped and immensely susceptible to adoration.
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Many singers inspire admiration, but few inspire obsession. Asha Puthli, who began her career as a jazz vocalist with Ornette Coleman and evolved into a funk diva, is one of those singers. Her stunning vocal range and idiosyncratic phrasing helped make songs like “Right Down Here” and “Space Talk" cult favorites.
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"If music is the common language of all people, Ms. Puthli speaks it fluently."
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By JON PARELES
No one could blame the Indian singer Asha Puthli for a little
name-dropping. The collaborators and benefactors in her career since
the late 1960’s include, just for starters, Ornette Coleman, Martha Graham, the Notorious B.I.G., the filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory,
and the talent scout John Hammond. She has scandalized India and
delighted British talk-show audiences; she has been a catalyst in
German disco and an Italian B-movie actress. With a four-octave range and a lifelong ambition to synthesize
East and West, Ms. Puthli has sung jazz, disco, rock and Indian music.
She is to perform her first New York City concert in 25 years tomorrow
at Central Park SummerStage — joined by the jazz saxophonist Dewey
Redman and the rapper Guru — followed by a Joe’s Pub date on Sept. 13.
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