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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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, [...]

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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Right from the point the rock elements set in, Hairat Hai has you caught on with its ultra-addictive arrangement. Lucky Ali has of late been doing a good job of moving away from the soft melodies that he once used to be once associated with, to a boring [...]

Ajay Parasuraman
Firstly, apologies to all. After an extremely grueling 3 weeks at work, my zest for writing just flickered back on. Let bygones be that. I have just gotten back from a K.S Gopalakrishnan flute-kutcheri at Rasikapriya, Cochin. The review of that can wait. Possibly, forever
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The Germany-based music networking website will be taking an Indian delegation to POPKOMM Music Festival 2010, an integral part of the mostly Europe-dominated Berlin Music Week. This delegation will comprise of regional music labels and an Indian band, which will open the showcases at POPKOMM 2010. This band will be picked through ‘PLAYATPOPKOMM’ – an [...]

Another season of one of the best musical initiatives in the sub-continent in recent times aka Coke Studio, drew to a close last Sunday. The season saw some veterans like Abida Parveen and Arif Lohar make their debut for the show, and also some relative newbies like Sanam Marvi and Amanat Ali, while seasoned Coke [...]