CD review: ‘Found A Way Home’ by Ranj Singh and The Discriminators

Until a month ago, I had never heard of band Ranj Singh and The Discriminators. But when Singh contacted me to review their newly released debut album, “Found A Way Home,” I felt very lucky. For the first time in a long while, I realized that I was literally listening to  — and almost touching — the “soul” of an artist.   

Canada is famous for its cultural tapestry. Here, every person is free to grow new types of trees from unique seeds. And this is exactly what Ranj Singh and The Discriminators have done with “Found A Way Home.” By bringing together and merging Indian music and western folk rock into each other, they have created a collection of songs that are both soothing and poetic. Soothing, because Indian music is spiritual in essence. And poetic, because the best thing about folk music is often its lyrics. 

However, “Found A Way Home” would not be the album it is without Ranj Singh. Whether he sings about Mother Nature in “Earth Time,” the beauty of dreams in “Fly Away,” or the challenges of life in “Everything’s Still OK” and “Found A Way Home,” there is something about his voice that will haunt you long after the 11 songs are over.

“Found a Way Home” is a winner on many levels, an album that deserves to literally find its way in a lot of people’s homes around the world. I would like to call it a great piece of modern Canadiana.  

More about “Found a Way Home”

Release date: Spring 2011

Produced by Ranj Singh and Brandon Cherrington