{"product_id":"a-strange-light-from-the-east-eastern-influenced-western-music-1965-72","title":"A Strange Light From The East - Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72","description":"\u003cp\u003e1965–1972 period saw Western music transformed through the integration of Eastern music and philosophy and raga influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIconic tracks by The Byrds, The Yardbirds, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band pioneered the fusion of modal jazz, Indian classical music, and psychedelic rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese experiments laid the foundations for progressive rock, proto-punk, and world music, permanently altering the technical and creative landscape of modern music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dawn of the British folk revival broke in 1965 when Bert Jansch’s \"folk-baroque\" finger style revolutionised tradition, providing the early morning light for a burgeoning psychedelic scene which, by 1972 had traveled from folk clubs to the high-concept landscapes of progressive rock, exemplified by the Eastern-tinged sitar-guitar on Yes’s 'Siberian Khatru'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWestern artists utilised Eastern forms as a new musical bedrock. The Byrds transitioned from folk-rock into the uncharted territory of 'Eight Miles High', a track widely cited as the first true U.S. \"Raga Rock\" single. Driven by Roger McGuinn’s solos - inspired by Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane - it proved pop could embrace complex modal structures. Similarly, The Yardbirds’ Jeff Beck used high-fuzz pedals to mimic a sitar’s drone on 'Heart Full Of Soul'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the daylight intensified, ambitious excursions pushed genre limits. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band bridged the gap between traditional forms and the jam-band aesthetic with 'East West', a masterpiece of modal jazz and Indian classical music. Kaleidoscope’s 'Egyptian Gardens' remains one of the most authentic examples of the trend, blending Middle Eastern scales into world-music fusion. Even the driving rhythms of Shocking Blue’s 'Love Buzz' showed how the raga sound was integrated into emerging hard rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis \"strange light\" provided the blueprint for the complex musical architecture that followed. The technical rigours of progressive rock grew directly from these experiments; Jimmy Page’s DADGAD tuning on 'White Summer' became a Led Zeppelin staple. The influence even reached into the shadows, as The Stooges traded garage-rock for the ritualistic intensity of 'We Will Fall'. From the \"space-age\" pop of The Riot Squad to the \"Indo-Afro\" experiments of The 40 Watt Banana, this era of cross-pollination forever altered the horizons of Western musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC ONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1.  BERT JANSCH - Anji\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2.  THE YARDBIRDS w\/ JEFF BECK - Heart Full of Soul\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3.  THE BYRDS - Eight Miles High\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4.  THE RIOT SQUAD - I Take It That We're Through\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5.  THE CYRKLE - Turn Down Day\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6.  THE MIRAGE - Tomorrow Never Knows\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7.  THE MISUNDERSTOOD - I Unseen (IBC Acetate)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8.  THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - East West\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9.  TUESDAY'S CHILDREN - Strange Light From the East\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10.  BIG JIM SULLIVAN - She's Leaving Home\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e11.  DANTALION'S CHARIOT - This Island\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e12.  THE FLOWER POT - Wantin' Ain't Gettin'\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e13.  THE ZODIAC - Libra - The Flower Child\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e14.  KALEIDOSCOPE - Egyptian Gardens\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e15.  WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND - Buddha\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e16.  THE YARDBIRDS w\/ JIMMY PAGE - White Summer\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e17.  THE FUGS - Hare Krishna\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e18.  THE MISTY WIZARDS - It's Love\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e19.  HI REVVING TONGUES - (The Psychedelic) Illusion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e20.  SPIRIT - Girl In Your Eye\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e21.  THE LEMON PIPERS - I Need Someone (The Painter)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e22.  THE TWILIGHTS - Devendra\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e23.  CHAD \u0026amp; 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