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Alisha Sufit made some little-known recordings in the first 1970s like a guitarist and vocalist/songwriter with Magic Carpeting (who did 1 rare recording) so that as a soloist (doing an recording of materials that wasn’t issued before ’90s), using open up acoustic guitar tunings and vocalizing in a way extremely …

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 …

Even though UK progressive rock and roll motion inevitably produced artists of questionable artistic integrity, other groups such as for example 70s Magic Carpet used the options of improving technology to create something highly original and imaginative. A quartet offering Clem Alford (sitar, tamboura, esraj), Jim Moyes (electric guitar), Keshav …