#sheila chandra

[thesobsister]

Not enough people are talking about Sheila Chandra, one of the great voices of the '90s. Her involuntary silence for more than a decade makes these albums all the more precious.

[mudwerks]

(via Sheila Chandra - Speaking in Tongues II (live at World In The Park 1992)

[dextervoid]

A primitive mix of largely a cappella recordings and other vocal oddities, all stitched together in a very simple way. It’s hopefully entertaining and challenging in equal measure, and something that I hope summons joy, fear, sadness and laughter!

[sivavakkiyar]

Tomorrow Never Knows, by The Beatles, covered by Sheila Chandra w/ Monsoon

[c-40]

A-T-4 140 Sheila Chandra Quiet!

Quiet 8

Quiet 1

Quiet 6

Quiet 9

Former Grange Hill star and Monsoon lead singer Sheila Chandra. Quiet! is Chandra's second solo album after Monsoon disband and it's a lot more focused album. I really enjoy it. Monsoon was broken up over a legal dispute with the label, Chandra's first four solo albums use the same rotating group of indipop players as Monsoon and other indipop releases of the period

All You Want Is More disco track from Sheila Chandra's debut solo album Out On My Own

Both albums are produced by her husband Indipop label boss Steve Coe with Martin Smith recording

[takmiblog]

Sheila Chandra

THE ZEN KISS

[zuvluguu]

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Flexipop #20 (1982)

Testament Of Youth: Sheila Chandra (Monsoon)

[thearcanawriter]

The Fire Fountain

This is for the Vesuvia weekly How it went wrong (ft the arcana familiars) prompt. It's a lil writing with a self-insert. Hope you like it!

(M6 X MC [Platonic])

It's just a usual day, I'm reading a book on "How to Cook a Skink 101". Suddenly something lands on my head. It's my familiar, Sheila, her bunny ears obscuring my vision. "Chaos." Sheila tells me. "What happened?" Sheila jumps off, encouraging me to follow.

Sheila leads me to Townsquare. Amongst the crowds, I spot Asra and the others standing before the source of the panic. It was the fountain. But instead of water flowing, it was fire. Sheila stops and lets me pick her up. I look to the others. "What happened here?!" Portia shrugs. "I dunno. I was looking for Pepi when I saw her here, in front of the fire." Pepi meows in response.

Faust looks proud. "Magic fountain! Warm." Lucio is pouting, petting the fur of Mercedes and Melchior. "Well, it almost burned my precious dogs!" He gestures to his expensive hunting dogs. Nadia is rubbing her temples, bothered by a headache. "Well let's fix this before it does any more damage. Asra, Faust said this is magic, so will water work?" Asra looks to Faust, and she drops a small pouch in Asra's hands. "Hmm. No. It won't work. The spell creates everlasting fire. Water won't work. Only another spell can extinguish it. I will go get the spellbook. Be right back!" Asra then speeds off with Faust.

Now it's just us, and our familiars. Nadia mumbles something to her familiar, Chandra, and she flies off. Portia is at the side, scolding Pepi, and Lucio's petting his dogs, trying to calm them down. They look completely fine, even looking proud. I think they had something to do with this fire fountain. Julian is nowhere to be found, and Muriel is sitting on the floor, with Innana sleeping on his lap.

"Hey Muriel. Is she okay?" I gesture to the sleeping Innana. Muriel pets her on the head. "She's fine. Just tired." I smile, relieved. "That's good then. You should go back to your cabin then if she's tired." Muriel looks away. "I will, once this disaster is done." I pat Innana on the head. "Okay then. I'll go find Ilya." I then turn around to look for Julian, when I suddenly bump into Nadia.

"Oh, hey Nadi. Everything okay?" She smiles. "Yes, everything is fine, I just sent Chandra to tell the people to stay away. Is Muriel and his familiar alright?" I nod in response. Then suddenly Asra and Julian rush in, with the books and ingredients needed. "We're back with the books!" Julian says as Malak lands on his head.

Asra nods in my direction. I nod back and we hold hands to start the spell. Then suddenly a voice from behind me speaks. "I'll help." I turn around and find out it's Muriel. Then Nadia joins in. "I will offer my help as well." She then holds my hands and we say the words of the spell.

The fire slowly dies out. The fountain itself is fine, just suffered minor discoloration. Once we were done, night was about to fall, so we all said our goodbyes and went home.

Well, that's it! Hope y'all liked the story!

[astridellejo]

Meet the Artist 2024

A new year and a new 'Meet the Artist' drawing.

Here's all the text in the image below the cut:

Meet the Artist @ astridellejo Maker of Art Things

Sun Libra | Moon Pisces | Rising Pisces | INTP Nonbinary Aromantic Asexual Transgender flags | They/Them 5' 10" (178 cm) | 30 Sep | Age: 49

Notable Features: I have a voice disorder and I can't speak louder than a whisper. So I'm learning ASL, American Sign Language. I'm always dressed like I'm on my way to yoga.

#janaya #caitvi #harlivy #imodna

Daring to wear a bit of COLOR!

TUNES Sheila Chandra Fleetwood Mac AURORA Gogol Bordello Florence + the Machine Mr Bungle ELO The Birthday Massacre

Likes: Autumn Rain Petrichor Cinnamon Yoga Mangoes Mermaids Ballet Workout Black Clothing Sign Language

Dislikes: Summer Direct Sunlight ASMR Mint Realistic Graphics in Video Games Capitalism Motor Vehicles Pastels Phones

[pudding-parade]

Music Meme

I was tagged by @celebkiriedhel, sooooo.....

🎶✨ when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, and publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶

I've been in a bit of an…eclectic…phase lately, so here's some stuff that's gotten a lot of "airplay" in my house lately. I'm cutting it because I babbled, but before I do that I'll tag: @anamoon63, @enable--llamas, @hazely-sims, @batsheba, @lilleputtu, @echoweaver, @nectar-cellar, @erasabledinosaur, and whoever else might want to do this. Of course, feel free to ignore for any reason. No pressure at all from me!

OK, here we go...

The Gladiator score. The whole thing. I so wish I had played on this one, because it's awesome. Plus, I love Lisa Gerrard. But, on the other hand, I can totally understand why Gustav Holst's estate sued Hans Zimmer's ass because that battle theme sounds an awful lot like Mars, Bringer of War from the Planets Suite. Maybe it was intentional, what with the movie being set in Roman times and Mars being the Roman god of war, but if so you'd think they could have gotten some permission. Apparently not!

Prem Kavita/Wings of the Dawn - Monsoon This is Indipop from the early 80s. No, that isn't indie pop. It's a fusion of Indian music with Western pop. Monsoon sort of pioneered it, and it never really caught on, but as I understand it, it's rising in popularity again. And I love it. Y'all can have your J-pop and K-pop. Gimme all the Indipop. I linked to the Hindi version of the song because I like it better, but there's an English version, too.

Also, I love Sheila Chandra, Monsoon's singer, as a solo artist. It's just a tragedy that she has burning mouth syndrome and is now basically mute. :( Also also, I would love to learn to play the sitar.

Cafe de Anatolia Keeping with a world music theme… This is a 24/7 YouTube stream from a small record label based in Turkey that specializes in a fusion of ethnic music (mostly Middle Eastern and south Asian) with house music, two things that I love. The music is at once meditative and something that you can dance to. I do belly dancing for exercise (it's amazing for your core), and this stream or something else on the same channel is great music for practicing.

Ojos Asi - Shakira Speaking of belly dancing…Ah, Shakira. This is a long remix of my favorite song of hers. Great for belly dancing.

And finally, for something completely different...

One - Apocalyptica Who needs electric guitars to play Metallica songs when you have four Finns from the Sibelius Academy with cellos? I challenge you to tell the difference from about 3:30 to the end. (Also, I have very fond memories of an impromptu jam during a looooooooooooooooong recording session for the first Transformers movie, when we were waiting eternally for Michael Bay reasons, and one of the cellists just started playing the opening pizzicato arpeggios for Apocalyptica's version of "Nothing Else Matters," and the rest of us just started playing the rest. Then the brass players joined in. Good times.)

[caramelcat]

Playlist: Double Bounce fill – Triple R FM, Sep 5, 2023

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Bex Burch, Macie Stewart - Dawn Blessings Alabaster DePlume, Donna Thompson - Naked Like Water Irreversible Entanglements - Free Love Zakia Sewell - The Cosmic Age Sun Ra - There Are Other Worlds They Have Not Told You About Arrangement - Coconut Mango Menagerie - Kingdom The Circling Sun - Bliss Soft Power - Duke Tara Clerkin Trio - The Turning Ground Robert Fripp, Brian Eno - Evening Star Maral - setar rock Tirzah, Sampha - Can We Do This? LAFAWNDA, Lala &ce - Le Malentendu (Tirzah & Coby Sey Version) Suzanne Doucet - Malibu Beach Loraine James, RiTchie - Déjà Vu NONAME - Regal Jessy Lanza - Big Pink Rose SPELLLING - Haunted Water L’RAIN - Pet Rock Marlene Ribeiro - You Do It Yetsuby - 물먹는하마 Hippo Drinking Water Air - Bossa 96 - demo Yu Su - Counterclockwise Seja - Change On The Horizon Sheila Chandra - Ever So Lonely - Stephen Hague remix Hysterical Love Project - Sever/Strike Slowdive - kisses hoodie x james K - ether MEMORIALS - Dark Green Gregg Kowalsky - Fragile Water Harmonia, Eno '76 - Welcome Andreas Vollenweider - Flight Feet and Root Hands Bélver Yin - ¿Quién te va a querer ahora? Troth - Forget the Curse Inga Copeland - Obsession 2 bar italia - changer Animal Collective - Soul Capturer Chemical Brothers, Hope Sandoval - Asleep From Day Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Adrian Sherwood - In My Body Dub

[suzilight]

sink into your eyes and all I see

love is an ocean and you for me

an ocean refuses no river