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|  "A sound like Raga meeting Aretha Franklin, Miss Puthli's singing is equally extraordinary. There is just enough Indian training left in he style to give it and indescribable fluid quality. Her alternation of timbre from the breathiest of sighs to gospel derived moans is unique. She improvises off an impressive range and generally walks through the album with the assurance of a master performer" - Robert Palmer |
"...a fusion pioneer" - Ann Powers,
The New York Times
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 | "What's more, she sings them quite superbly with a warmth, a directness and power that cuts through the flummery and identifies her for what she is - a total pro" - Philip Oakes |  | "Her voice has the matt smoothness of a sugared almond, and the rustling flexibility of heavy silk. There are dark contralto notes at one end and a less frequently used rear soprano register with a copper sheen: at the other, she has a sense of dynamics which makes the quieter, more intimate phrases sound like an erotic woman breathing a name on a mirror. If you are in tune with Miss Puthli, I can practically guarantee goose simples" - Peter Clayton |  | "Top glamour in the past year has come mainly from the powder, paint and glitter brigade led by Bowie. Balon, and Glade. Now the girls are fighting back. Our new lady of pop is putting glamour right where is belongs. She is Asha Puthli as talented as she is outrageous. Her voice purrs and soars" - Don Short |  | "Classy singer (who) has built up an enviable pedigree which in itself suggests a large talent." "She sings with liquid effortless grace, at exotic, slinky & soulful" - Andrew Bailey |  | "Expressing verbal feelings with a directness and purity that will leave you breathless" -Robert Palmer |  | "A musical trailblazer - some of her albums contain songs many critics called precursors to the disco movement" - Hugh Wyatt |  | The ability to manipulate her voice and to introduce certain glissando effects embellishments and textures descend directly from Asha's training in the Indian classical idiom. Her improvisations are the envy of the best instrumental technicians in jazz and is an added quality commonly found in the greatest jazz musicians: and aestheticism transcends the band to the spiritual" - Niranjan Jhaveri |
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