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 [...]
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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.
Sanour “Sunny” Mohammad, a music blogger and sound engineer, has posted a musical tribute to the victims of the recent Mumbai terrorist attack. The song, Mamma Hold Me, is written by Piyush Singh with the music and vocals by Sunny himself.
You have to listen to it, Hotel Kerelafonia, found it accidently of course at Youtube.
Rajesh Raman has posted the latest track he has composed.
I started recording a Sanskrit hymn and had thought of classical bhajan to follow that, but ended up recording a fusion mix with some of my Tamil scribble:-)
Asim Ghosh has posted some not-so-popular songs from Kishore Kumar in his music blog.
OK, may not be so “rare” to some of you ardent Kishore Da fans. But I see that most bloggers/karaoke enthusiasts more often opt for, say “Mere Sapno Ki Rani”, than “Moti Ho To, Baandh Ke Rakh Doon”. So, it’s probably wiser [...]
Mehfil-E-Ghazal is a blog initiated by Murali Venkatraman and Sindhuja Bhaktavatsalam to pool in some songs in North Indian languages that they cherish and sing. To begin with they have posted lyrics of some Ghazals with it’s translation in Tamil. They say that the translations can be sung in the tune of original. Check it [...]
The Malayalam blogosphere has had some creative works in the past week. Rajesh Raman composed a poem written by Donna Mayoora and posted it in his blog. Bahuvreehi, a Malayalam blogger composed a song written by Ramya and had Kiran to sing it. Then from the music blogging world, there is Smitha Passanha with her [...]
I did not feel like arguing when one of my teachers said…”if we strictly interpret the Indian copyright act, every individual in the metros at least, would have to be jailed for at least a year”
Suren says copyright violation in India is that rampant.
Blogbhartian Jo has been featured (Expresso, Indian Express, Kochi, on 21/11/2008) as ‘the pioneer of the Malayalam podcast’. Congrats, Jo!
Late 2004. That was when I started getting bored with orkut because there were just a handful of Indians in the social network site.
So I discovered blogging and the Mizo online community.
The first hurdle was selecting a good online nick, because I knew that online nicks were something people are associated with in the real [...]
Nandita Mahadevan has posted two songs for the Peace Day. Listen to her beautiful rendition of Allah Tero Naam.
Maddy pays tribute to Shanta P Nair, a playback singer of the yesteryears in Kerala.
Thumbi Thumbi va va…Picture a scene - a song from 1956, K Raghavan master’s music and Vayalar’s lyrics. The nervous Vayalar Rama Varma would have been sitting and listening to his very first lyrics for the movie ‘Koodapirappu’ being sung by [...]
Srividya Kasturi and Rajesh Raman have sung a duet song, Mere Dholna, from the movie Bhool Bhulaiyya. Hemanth Sharma’s song post has his version of Badan Pe Sitare, a 1969 song by Mohd. Rafi. N V Krishnan has sung and posted Kahin Door Jab Din DHal Jaaye, a song originally sung by Mukesh. Then there [...]
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