Enoch Daniels & Jayram Acharya – Sitar Goes Latin – SMOCE 2003 – (Condition – 90-95%) – Cover Reprinted – LP Record

A much loved and well-respected figure in the Bombay film-industry (a.k.a. ‘Bollywood’) for almost six decades, Enoch Daniels (fondly known as ‘Danny’) is known for his work as a film arranger/composer, and for his instrumental albums of rendition of film tunes on the piano-accordion.

Born on April 16th, 1933 in Pune, a historic and bustling city in the western state of Maharashtra, India, he was raised in a musical family (all six brothers played an instrument), with religious and church music playing an important role in his early years. The presence of British missionaries in the area (Convent of St. Mary the Virgin, and the other managed by the Cowley Fathers belonging to the Society of St. John the Evangelist, S.S.J.E.) ensured that he received musical instruction for the next few years on the local church organ. He was also keen on percussion, assembling a make-shift drum kit consisting of wooden boxes, metal tins, brass plates to substitute cymbals with, a chest of drawers which served as a bass drum, and a kettle drum. Several years of instruction under Rev. Father Slade and Sister Gertrude Joy, laid the foundation for the long musical journey that lay ahead of him.