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James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown.

I dealt with that breakdown by as much music from 2016 as I possibly could.

As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016,

and I'm convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time.

But it's not enough me being convinced.

I also want to convince each and every single one of you,

plus a guest every week.

I'm going to send them an album in advance.

They're going to come on the podcast with a talk about that album.

This week, my guest is Sikisa, and we're talking about the Amy Dang album, Uni Sun.

Uni Son is the second album by classically trained sitar player, Amy Dang, she's not just a sitar player, she's a vocalist, she does pretty much everything on this album. All the samples are created by her, she cuts them up herself, all the instruments that are on the album are played by Amy Dang.

This is a very under the

radar album. I had to really dig hard to find this, but I can honestly say I've never heard

another album like it. The amount of different genres and influences that it brings together here,

Amy Dan calls it Bollywave.

Back in the day, she says it was the early noughts.

Everyone was calling everything wave.

So she went with that.

It was the Myspace days, you know?

You remember the Myspace days?

Everyone was calling everything wave.

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