Vocalist and songwriter Asha Puthli was well known in her native India before emigrating to New York in the late 1960s. She made a splash in the U.S. jazz world after appearing on Ornette Coleman's seminal Science Fiction in 1971. Further, she anticipated several major developments in Western popular music with her four albums for CBS Europe. 1976's The Devil Is Loose showcased her slinky vocals deployed above pulsing electronic beats and a bumping bassline in sexy Euro-disco. She focused on acting and modeling during the 1980s but returned to recording with 1990's Hari Om. La...