''You've Stolen My Heart'' is a 2005 studio album from the Kronos Quartet, featuring arrangements of the music of Indian composer

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, with vocals by Asha Bhosle, she sang the original versions of the album's songs and was married to Burman until his death in 1994. The album features keyboards, autoharp, and various percussion instruments in addition to the Kronos Quartet's core

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instruments. The recordings also feature Indian percussionist

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and Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man. The album features four instrumental tracks, and eight with Bhosle on lead vocals. The album was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album.

Track listing

# Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke) – 4:43 #Rishte Bante Hain (Relationships Grow Slowly) – 6:15 #Mehbooba Mehbooba (Beloved, O Beloved) – 3:51 #Ekta Deshlai Kathi Jwalao (Light a Match) – 3:59 #Nodir Pare Utthchhe Dhnoa (Smoke Rises Across the River) – 6:00 #Koi Aaya Aane Bhi De (If People Come) – 5:36 #Mera Kuchh Saaman (Some of My Things) – 6:55 #Saajan Kahan Jaoongi Main (Beloved, Where Would I Go?) – 5:43 # Piya Tu Ab To Aaja (Lover, Come to Me Now) – 5:28 #Dhanno Ki Aankhon (In Dhanno's Eyes) – 4:03 # Chura Liya Hai Tum Ne (You've Stolen My Heart) – 5:09 #Saiyan Re Saiyan (My Lover Came Silently) – 5:49

Personnel

Performers

* Asha Bhosle – vocals (1,2,4,6,7,9,11,12) * David Harrington – violin (1-12), tambourine (2), mouth percussion (2), bow percussion (2), chang (2),

autoharp An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the intended chord. The term ''autoharp'' was once a trademark of ...

(2,6,7,8), Korg MS-20 (2), vocal percussion (2,6), hammered violin (4), match (4), frame drum (5), harmonium (5), gongs(6),

cymbal A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs soun ...

(6), triangle (7), piano (9,11), trumpet violin (9), glass (11) *

Hank Dutt The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classic ...

– viola (1-12), Farfisa Organ (1,2,7,12), Hohner Pianet (2,4,7,8,9), synthesizer (2,4,5,7,9,12),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

(3,11) theremin (6), organ (6,8) * Jennifer Culp – cello (1-12), electric bass (6,10,12) *

John Sherba The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classic ...

– violin (1-12), bow percussion (2), hammered violin (4), trumpet violin (4, 6, 11, 12) *

– Indian trap set (1,4,11), tambourine (1,4,11), madal (1,3,8,11), tabla (2,4,5,7,8,10),

tabla tarang The tabla tarang (Hindi: तबला तरंग) is a melodic percussion instrument consisting of between ten and sixteen tuned dayan drums. In a tabla "pair" instrument, the dayan is the treble drum and the bayan is the bass drum. Tarang mean ...

(2,6), batajon (3,9),

djembe A djembe or jembe ( ; from Maninka language, Malinke ''jembe'' , N'Ko script, N'Ko: ) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa. According to the Bambara people in Mali, the name of the djembe ...

(6,8,9,12), bass drum (6), shaker (10,12), talking drum (12), frame drum (12) * Wu Man –

pipa The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a () is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets rang ...

(1-4,6-9,11,12),

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(2,3,4,11,12), electric sitar (2,7), gong (6) * Gustavo Santaolalla – vocal (9) * Scott Fraser – electric sitar (2), guitar (11) * Judith Sherman – finger cymbals (1) * James Quinn – breath (1) * Anand Bhostle – vocal percussion (6) * Enrique Gonzalez Müeller – vocal percussion (6), breath (9)

Production

* Producer – David Harrington * Co-producers – Scott Fraser and Judith Sherman * Executive Producer – Robert Hurwitz * Engineer – Scott Fraser * Assistant Engineers – Enrique Gonzalez Müeller (The Plant), Marc Dimmitt (Studio D Recording) * Mixing – Scott Fraser and David Harrington * Mastering – Scott Fraser * Arrangements – David Harrington, except (3,5,8,10) Stephen Prutsman with David Harrington * Music Preparation – Hank Dutt * Design – Doyle Partners * Photography – Gautam Rajadhyaksha

Song notes

* "Dum Maro Dum" (Hindi: दम मारो दम) – Originally featured in the 1971 film '' Hare Rama Hare Krishna''. Lyrics by Anand Bakshi. * "Piya Tu Ab To Aaja" (Hindi: पिया तू अब तो आजा) – Originally featured in the 1971 Hindi film ''

Caravan Caravan or caravans may refer to: Transport and travel *Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together **Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop *Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals *Convoy, a group of veh ...

''. Lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. * "Mehbooba Mehbooba" - Originally featured in the 1975 film '' Sholay''. * "Dhanno Ki Aankhon" - Originally featured in the 1977 film " Kitaab". * "Chura Liya Hai" - Originally featured in the 1973 film " Yaadon Ki Baaraat".

References

External links

Nonesuch Records Album ListingKronos Quartet with Asha Bhosle on WXPN's World Cafe, Oct 2005
{{Authority control 2005 albums Kronos Quartet albums