Music Aloud

Crook – Music Review

VIP — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:16:34 +0000

You can listen to the soundtrack online here. Plagiaristic allegations aside, the Punjabi track Challa works wonderfully, highlights of the song being the brilliant singing by Babbu Mann and the catchy Ta-na-na hook. The remix by Tigerstyle also sticks to the Punjabi template and hence succeeds. Mere Bina follows next, a breezy melody rendered well by [...]

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On the Beaten track – Interview with Tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh

VIP — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:57:40 +0000

George Harrison called him “the wonder boy of tabla”. From Harrison to Pt. Ravi Shankar to Zakir Hussain to Pete Lockett, he has worked with the biggest names in the world music arena and at the age of 44 already has to his credit 11 solo albums, 12 film scores and over 70 collaborative works, [...]

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Happy Birthday Asha ji!

VIP — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:30:52 +0000

When it comes to the question of who the best female singer in Bollywood is, the answer in almost all cases would invariably be Lata Mangeshkar. Indeed there have been few singers gifted with such divine voice and talent. But when the spread of singing genres becomes a criterion, the scales may in all probability [...]

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Raaga Primer: Ragamala

VIP — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:35:18 +0000

Ajay Parasuraman As we’ve covered the basics of both Carnatic and Hindustani to an extent, it is time that we delved a little deeper into each of the individual entities associated with Classical Music; Raag, Taal etc. This post will entirely be about Raags. So, to those who are interested, read on! Sept [...]

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Ehsaan Noorani. The middle name of SEL.

VIP — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:44:14 +0000

He has been in the business of making wonderful music for over 15 years now, first as part of Instant Karma, and then as part of the legendary Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, even earning a national award for best composer in the process. We proudly present to you our interview of guitarist-composer Ehsaan Noorani, where he speaks of [...]

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Swagatham, the official theme song of Commonwealth Games 2010 launched by A R Rahman

VIP — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:29:43 +0000

Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman launched the official Commonwealth 2010 Theme Song Swagatham yesterday at a ceremony in Gurgaon. The song has been sung by ARR himself, and at the launch ceremony too ARR sung it to the audience. Sure the song is marked by signature innovative orchestral elements from ARR, starting with the harmonic [...]

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Thermal and a Quarter’s song for download!

VR — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:37:58 +0000

Seems like there is lot of legal downloadable free music around. Thermal and a Quarter, the Bangalore based rock outfit is offering one of it’s singles, “Grab me” for free for fans. All you got to do is go to their site and follow the instructions. So grab it, before they take it off. The song [...]

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Raaga Primer: The Thaats

VIP — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:03:40 +0000

Ajay Parasuraman The last post introduced you to the quite fascinating Katapayadi Sankhya of classification of Carnatic Melakartha Raagas. I had mentioned that in Hindustani, the equivalent of Melakarthas are Thaats. One of the most influential musicologists in the Hindustani field of music was a person called Vishnu Bhatkhande. According to him, each [...]

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Gumshuda – Music Review

VIP — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:50:02 +0000

(You can listen to songs online here) In true Bickram Ghosh style, the item number Tanha Raatein is replete with World Music elements, exotic percussion playing away to a predominantly Latino lounge-ish template. And being bread and butter stuff for her, Sunidhi Chauhan does a wonderful job at vocals. A “premium” item number for a change, [...]

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Madhushree – An interview..

VIP — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:38:12 +0000

A trained classical singer from Kolkata, she made her Bollywood debut with Rajesh Roshan’s Moksha. But her song that really got heads turning was Kabhi Neem Neem from Yuva, and she subsequently went on to become a regular feature in ARR scores, recording some memorable songs with him like Pal Pal Hai Bhaari (Swades), Tu [...]

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