The Bongolian - Indian Summer Of Love CLEAR VINYL (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 17-October-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

Indian Summer of Love finds The Bongolian immersed in a new set of sounds and influences for a new Belle Epoch. It’s a musical landscape informed by the Sixties psychedelia of India via a Haight Ashbury happening. It’s a kaleidoscopic vision that takes us from a 20th century Fin de Siècle and lands us in the here and now of the 21st Century. It’s for dancers, for seekers and is all underscored by The Bongolian’s trademark heavy rhythms and breaks. It’s another fine instalment of essential cuts for the dancefloor and for high fidelity listening, quality is guaranteed. From the East to the West, welcome to the Indian Summer of Love. Nasser Bouzida performs drums, percussion, guitars and keys whilst the album features several new flavours to the Bongolian sound with the prominent instrumentation of sitars and bansuri, along with flute, trumpet, saxophone and trombone performances from several stellular international guest musicians.

Previous MEDIA Quotes:

"It’s the Bongolian El Beardo, I'm absolutely loving it I promise I will play something else from the album, but I'm just loving this, so perfect, can't stop playing it, the album is a wonderful return for the mighty Bongolian, it's called Harlem Hipshake, it's their tribute to the Latin Soul of 1960s New York, should be out in the shops next month, if you are allowed to go to them, just by listening to this makes you feel cooler." Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show BBC 6 Music

“A Latin-flavoured jazz-funk odyssey” Q.

"This is the feel-good album. 9/10 " Louder Than War.

"It's an awesome album" Scootering Magazine.

"The Bongolian keeps the tempo locked, loaded and lively -9/10" Vive Le Rock.

"Pick this one up - It will be a regular spinner in the summer for sure" Jazz Journal.

"Time to get hip" Jazzwise.

El Beardo – BEST OF 2020 – Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show BBC 6 Music.

“the fabulously cool Harlem Hipshake is everything the title promises”. Shindig Magazine (Harlem Hipshake).

“That is sheer musicality" Cerys BBC 6 Music.

"Terrific stuff, that is" Gary Crowley BBC London.

"A brilliant, brilliant funk" Chris Hawkins BBC 6 Music (Googa Mama).
“Hipper, groovier, and funkier than ever before! Imagine Booker T & The MGs, The Duke Of Burlington, and Alan Hawkshaw taking a trip to the stars” DUSTY GROOVE.
“Forget your preconceptions, this is the REAL incredible bongo band.” CLASH

Also available: The Bongolian “s/t” (BU025) // Blueprint (BU028) // Bongos For Beatniks (BU060) // Moog Maximus (BU102) // Outer Bongolia (BU040) Harlem Hipshake (BU126).

Tracklisting:

Side One
1. Burning Man Of Calcutta
2. Master Blaster Tendulkar
3. Nehru Jacket Required
4. Indian Summer Of Love
5. Kathakali Eye Dancer
Side Two
1. Acid Test Angel
2. Baadshar Of Bollywood
3. Mucha Mushroom Man
4. Beyond The Perfumed Garden
5. Human Be In
6. Farewell To Varanasi