{"id":8686,"date":"2012-03-20T01:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2012-03-20T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T06:20:07","slug":"shanti-outta-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/shanti-outta-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanti Outta Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only a couple of Mondays left for a <strong>#MusicMonday<\/strong>, I know I had to make this one a song that will stick in your head for a while.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/shanti-outta-brooklyn\/brooklyn-shanti\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8694\" src=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brooklyn-shanti-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brooklyn-shanti-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brooklyn-shanti-490x300.jpg 490w, http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brooklyn-shanti.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The song is by an MC I&#8217;m really surprised hasn&#8217;t been covered by the Mutiny before. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynshanti.com\/\"><strong>Brooklyn Shanti<\/strong><\/a>, a Bengali DJ coming outta&#8230;. well &#8230; Brooklyn,\u00a0 I heard about via <a href=\"http:\/\/mandeepsethi.bandcamp.com\/\"><strong>Mandeep Sethi<\/strong><\/a>, my connection to all the latest in Desi hip-hop. <strong>Brooklyn Shanti<\/strong> is ridiculously prolific &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynshanti.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynshanti.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his bandcamp<\/a> have tons of songs available for download and he&#8217;ll be coming out with an album in the next couple of months. Of course, I have an affinity for all things Bengali, and I absolutely instantly fell in love when I heard his Bangla lyric-ed song <em>Rani, Rani<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<object data=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=4064963059 \/size=grande\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\/\" type=\"text\/html\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\">\n\t\t\t\t<param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=4064963059 \/size=grande\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\">\n\t\t\t\t<param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"always\">\n\t\t\t\t<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\">\n\t\t\t\t<param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\">\n\t\t\t\t<param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"never\">\n\t\t\t\t<object data=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=4064963059 \/size=grande\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\/\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\"><\/object>\n\t\t\t<\/object>\n\n<p>His theme song&#8217;s not so bad either. Keep an eye on this guy &#8211; <strong>Brooklyn Shanti&#8217;s<\/strong> going to be going far with these skills.<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brooklyn Shanti - Brooklyn Shanti Theme (Official Video)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ag6YInVqEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p>Check out his bandcamp discography &#8211; if you like the above songs, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll like what else he has. You can download his full album from June 2011 for free right here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynshanti.bandcamp.com\/album\/brooklyn-circa-2012\" target=\"_blank\">Brookylin Circa 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed the <strong>#MusicMonday&#8217;s<\/strong> at <strong>Sepia Mutiny<\/strong> these past couple of years &#8211; I started them because I wanted to have some content to provide for you on a weekly basis. After a while though, it became more of a scavenger hunt and a game to find the songs I would actually listen to on my iPod. I&#8217;ve found and befriended many of the artists profiled on these pages &#8211; and I&#8217;m hoping that my fantastical dream of Alterna-Desi Music Fest on the So Cal desert of Bombay Beach with these bands will happen some day. Some day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only a couple of Mondays left for a #MusicMonday, I know I had to make this one a song that will stick in your head for a while. The song is by an MC I&#8217;m really surprised hasn&#8217;t been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/shanti-outta-brooklyn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,13,48],"tags":[107,80,233,232,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}