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Artist: Bob Dylan

Album: Modern Times, Sony BMG

Since his last album Love and Theft in 2001, Bob Dylan has been keeping himself busy - he's acted in a Victoria's Secret commercial and Martin Scorcese's documentary No Direction and released the first part of his voluminous autobiography Chronicles.

In between all of this, Dylan's found the time to keep up his musical output, and for some reason, the older he gets, the younger he sounds.

His new album, Modern Times, begins with something you haven't heard from Dylan in a while - Thunder On The Mountain, a barroom blues tunes with Jerry Lee Lewis style honky tonk piano and a rocking bass line.

Modern times is almost punk in its tone and theme, raw and intense. Produced by Dylan himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost, blues isn't the only music here - jazz tinkles in and gospel tinkles out.

Another track we enjoyed was Dylan channelling Muddy Waters in Rollin and Tumblin, which is the joy of listening to veterans like Dylan or the stones - they've been around for so long that the regular rules don't apply anymore.

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Album: Dor, OST

A look at the video rushes of Nagesh Kukunoor's film Dor are enough to indicate that the soundtrack to this film has lots of Rajasthani folk music.

Produced by Salim Sulaiman, this album is rooted in traditional Indian classical and folk music, as is seen from tracks like Yeh Honsla, voiced by Pakistani rocker Shafqat Amanat Ali.

Kesariya Balam is another track that continues this theme, and though this song is melodic enough, it isn't really different from any other folk music you might have heard from the region. Another track to watch out for is Trilok Gurtu's Expression of Love.

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