Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe

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The pop music of Sri Lanka is unlike anything heard on Earth. Whereas you can hear influences from neighboring India, there are many other cultures that have left their mark.

Probably the best – if not only – compilation of the music of that country would be Akuphone‘s “Sri Lanka : The Golden Era of Sinhalese & Tamil Folk-pop Music“. That compilation contains the title track from the lone single recorded by Nalino Nel: “Gavaskar The Century Maker“.

I have not been able to find any further information about Nalino Nel. If you have any information, please leave it in the comments below.

Catalog number 2296 – 0399 on Inreco of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. Released 1979.