Sindhuja Bhaktavatsalam has posted a composition of hers in Bindumalini Raagam. Lyrics by her mother and it is a tribute to the rain God. Check it out and let her know what you think.
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Here is a blog that says “classical music for the uninitiated”. Indian Raga introduces us to various ragas, songs and music of several branches of Indian music with audio examples. Go, check them out.
Swati Kanitkar is giving us a musical treat with two beautiful songs. Jeevan Dor is the cover of a Lata Mangeshkar song and Dono Jahan Teri is a Ghazal. It’s a must-listen.
Memsaab lists her ‘favorite 60’s ‘Western’ songs’:
Lately I’ve had my iPod repeating a playlist that I put together of songs from 1960s films that are just bubbling over with western charm: guitars, trumpets, double basses, and the odd ukelele or two are used in what still remain quintessentially Hindi film songs. These are songs that [...]
Music Review : Blue (or Merriam-Webster’s definition of Chiggy-wiggy)
Published by September 12th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and Music. 6 CommentsBy now everyone and his uncle have heard “Chiggy Wiggy”. What ! you haven’t ? No, worries, my dear – Blogbharti is here (I sometimes contemplate starting up a poetry blog but people dissuade me). But I digress.
Bhargav Saikia wants to chiggy-wiggy :
Chiggy Wiggy will be a big hit with Kylie Minogue fans and that’s [...]
Music for Equality
Published by September 8th, 2009 in Activism, Music, Violence and Women. 0 CommentsMiss Malini has the details.
Paras has posted a song from the Hindi movie Taj Mahal, which is Raag Miyan ki Todi. Check it out.
Several of the Hindustani Raag are composed by him and often called…Miyan ki Todi, Miyan ki Malhar, Miyan ki Mand amd Miyan ka Sarang. He is also credited with creating major raag like Darbari Kanada, Darbari [...]
Murali Ramanathan has sung and posted a Ghazal of Ghulam Ali in his music blog. Check it out.
Along with singing ghazals, Ghulam Ali composes music for his ghazals. His compositions are raga-based and sometimes include a scientific mixture of ragas. He is known for blending gharana-gaayaki into ghazal and this gives his singing the capability [...]
Murali Venkatraman celebrates 30 years of the movie Sankarabharanam with a series of cover songs from the movie, which he has sung with his friends. The first song in the series is a E teeruga, sung by Murali and Meera.
For our country that has had many regional problems because of languages, music has often provided [...]
Rocksea has wonderful photos of street musicians in Italy. See the full collection here.
A boy playing El Choclo on Violin, before the museum Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy, where the statue of Michelangelo’s David is kept. El Choclo is a popular song/tango written by Angel G. Villoldo, an Argentine musician.
Sunil Koshy makes a musical offering in his music blog. Go ahead and listen to Muskurao Tum To Mausam, an original song by him.
Audio India is publishing a series of interviews with music bloggers- in the first post, Jo interviews Murali Venkatraman:
You were among the very first few people from India who started music blogging. Can you write about how it has helped you compared to your musical life before music blogging?
The most beautiful aspects of a music [...]
Murali Ramanathan has posted his cover version of the Tamil song Uyire Uyire from the movie Bombay. Vidyu has sung a duet song with Rajesh Raman, cover of Kuhu Kuhu, originally sung by Mohd. Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. Bose has his cover version of Kya Se Kya Ho Gaya from the Hindi movie Guide posted [...]
Murali Ramanathan has started a new series called Raaga Bhavam where he is going to explore Karnatik Raagas. This time he is presenting the raaga Sindhubhairavi.
With blessings from each one of my Gurus and all who have always supported me, I would like to start an endeavour to bring out each raga the way each [...]
Love in Bangalore is an original Kannada song, composed by Vijay Krishna, composer of Kannada flick Auto, and sung by music blogger Sunil Koshy and Diana. Check out this song in their blog dedicated to this song.
Art Futures Kolkata
Published by March 16th, 2009 in Art, Culture, Literature, Music, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Society and Theatre. 0 CommentsRama, fellow Blogbhartian, has started a new art blog, Art Futures Kolkata, with this admirable goal: Making Art Accessible, Relating Art to Community.
In the latest post, Rama questions the been-there, seen-that smugness of some Kolkatans:
Do they visit other painting or scuplture exhibitions of local or Indian artists in galleries or museums in Calcutta or elsewhere [...]
Reema links to youtube videos of soulful Bengali and Hindi songs as part of a tag. Do read the desciption that precedes the melodies:
Music is an integral part of Bengali culture. Almost every Bengali girl in Kolkata learns singing. The older generations (and all the Non-Bengali persons I have come across and who were familiar [...]
Does the West know more of Indian music now?
Published by February 20th, 2009 in Cinema, Globalisation, India, Indiaspora and Music. 0 CommentsAfter A.R. Rehman’s awards for Slumdog Millionare, Gluestick at the aavakai blog thinks the answer to the question is both yes and no :
The truth is that Indian music has been on the international radar from a long time – Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Zakir Hussain have won Grammies before this. Classical music appealed to [...]
Here are the Valentine’s Day special songs from the music blogging world. Click on the song names to listen.
Srividya Kasturi – Kabhi Neem Neem
Ajitha Watal – Akkam Pakkam
Sowmya R – Nenjiniley nenjiniley
9ones thinks that the writing lacks consistency — it swings between boring and very interesting constantly:
After Paro’s marriage, Dev D starts going downhill. Lenny/Chanda’s MMS scandal is straight out of life and the reasons that make her turn into a hooker are well explained. But the sequences between Dev and Chanda lack fizz. Equally sad [...]
FOSS and Metal Music
Published by February 4th, 2009 in IT, Music and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsAshik draws parallels between FOSS (Free and open source software) and Metal music. Very interesting points there. Check it out.
Both are creativity at work . People do make music and software for money. But the quality of something that they make for the sheer pleasure of creating something is so much more awesome !!
Crappy metal [...]
Nandita Mahadevan posted her cover version of a beautiful (and a tough-to-sing) Hindi song, Kesariya Balma from the movie Lekin. Listen and enjoy.
Rajesh Raman teamed up with K C Geetha to give us a musical treat on this Republic Day. Click here to listen to their collaborative work (in Malayalam language).
From his post:
The beautiful lyrics describes how gorgeous Mother India is, surrounded by the Himalayas & Oceans, blessed with its Natural beauty. ! It also conveys the [...]
TSJ Studio has posted the four musical themes which they have composed for a play named Final Solutions, written by Mahesh Dattani (of Morning Raaga and Dance Like a Man fame). Listen to all four tracks.
George Kuruvilla joins with Meera Manohar to sing the beautiful duet song from Yuvraj, Tu Mere Dost Hain. Check it out. Meanwhile Hemanth Sharma has sung Jaane Tu Mera Kya Hai from the film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Check that out too.
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