Indian Summers: A Soundtrack With Unexpected Influences

I have raved about the PBS series, Indian Summers, elsewhere -- the huge character arcs, the scope, the costumes, the acting, the writing, the viewpoints of multiple classes and ethnicities -- all brilliant. Naturally, I want to focus on the soundtrack here.

Certainly, I expected the music to be an intriguing Anglo-Indian mix, but this music is in a class by itself. There's a sprinkling of late 20th-century Movie Spectacle cliches, but they are quickly swept away by a heady and surprising cocktail of influences. Think Brian Eno's ambient work, as well as his collaborations with Daniel Lanois, and the solo work of Peter Gabriel.

This is quite simply the best, most diversely-influenced soundtrack I have heard since the Kingpin TV mini series (That would be the drama about drug traffickers; not the Farrelly Brothers film).

If the music for the opening titles (which you'll hear in the video below) interests you at all, I urge you to take a listen to the entire Indian Summers soundtrack.