Asha Puthli – Asha Puthli - Brand New - Vinyl LP Record (Quick Ship)

Asha Puthli’s self-titled 1973 debut is one of those records that quietly rewrote the rules while most people weren’t looking. After turning heads with her haunting vocals on Ornette Coleman’s “Science Fiction,” Puthli stepped out on her own and delivered an album that slipped between jazz, pop, soul, and subtle Indian inflections with disarming ease. Her voice is the center of gravity here—smoky, intimate, and slyly theatrical—gliding over lush strings, loose funk rhythms, and dreamy, psychedelic-tinged arrangements. You’ll hear torch-song vulnerability sitting next to space-age lounge, and a cosmopolitan sound that feels equally at home in Bombay, New York, and a dimly lit European nightclub. It’s a rare early example of a South Asian artist not just entering Western pop and jazz, but bending them to her own cinematic vision. For collectors, this album captures a moment when boundaries between genres and geographies were starting to melt, and Puthli was far ahead of that curve. If you’re drawn to adventurous 70s jazz-pop, cult classics, or fearless vocalists who treat the studio like a dream laboratory, this LP earns a permanent spot on the shelf—and on the turntable.