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As an associate of Magic Carpeting and Magic Carpeting II, and on his single recordings, Uk sitarist Alford has explored the fusion of Indian music with folk, jazz, and rock and roll. Although he primarily researched bagpipes, Alford started playing the sitar in the middle-’60s, influenced by Ali Akbar Khan …

Magic Carpeting made just one single album in the first 1970s, the self-titled Magic Carpeting, which fused Indian ragas and singer/songwriter folk in a way suggestive of Joni Mitchell using the Incredible String Music group. Three from the four music artists — sitarist Clem Alford, guitarist Jim Moyes, and tabla …