To start with, if you have yet to watch Nina Paley’s amazing animated film “Sita Sings the Blues,” you can now watch it online HERE. It has a spectacular soundtrack, yet you can’t buy the soundtrack as a single entity – it will take some hunting to put it all together. Here are the links below for this amazing “almost lost” soundtrack (none of these are free, but they’re worth the price):

1. – “Sita in Space” – Todd Michaelsen [LINK]
2. – “Moanin’ Low” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
3. – “Here We Are” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
4. – “Viraha” – Rudresh Mahanthappa [CD]
5. – “Ganpati” – Masaladosa [LINK]
6. – “What I Wouldn’t Do for That Man” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
7. – “Daddy Won’t You Please Come Home?” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
8. – “Bomm Shankar” – Masaladosa [LINK]
9. – “I Like It When You Play the Blues” – Rudresh Mahanthappa [CD]
10. – “Who’s That Knockin’ at My Door?” – Annette Hanshaw [no source]
11. – “Mean to Me” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
12. – “If You Want the Rainbow You Must Have the Rain” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
13. – “Balancing Act” – Rudresh Mahanthappa [CD]
14. – “Agni Parishka (Sita’s Fire)” – Todd Michaelsen and Reena Shah [LINK]
15. – “Am I Blue?” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
16. – “Lover Come Back to Me” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
17. – “I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]
18. – “Sita’s String Theory” – Todd Michaelsen [LINK]
19. – “The Song Is Ended” – Annette Hanshaw [LINK]

10/13/09 – Special thanks to Rudresh Mahanthappa for directing us to his album “Black Water,” which provided several perfect songs for the film.

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