(Posted on behalf of Little Big Noise) World-renowned percussionist, Bickram Ghosh, Assamese folk/indie singer, Papon and Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni – three musicians from three diverse backgrounds – will come together for ‘Troikala’, in search of an exploratory musical synergy in folk music that transcends borders. Curated and organized by British Council in association with Folktronic, ‘Troikala’ will see the [...]

You can listen to the soundtrack here. Title song is quintessential youth, with its cool urbane sound. And the composer gets two of the most reliable voices in this genre – Benny Dayal, Anushka Manchanda to do a flawless rendition of it. I would have preferred the voices unprocessed though. The remix doesn’t do much [...]

En Frienda Pola seems like a friendship extolment song + hero song rolled into one, but its rock-based anthemic sound works quite well, with Krish and Suchith Suresan doing a neat rendition. Harris Jayaraj does an impressive job of adapting the Aal Izz Well motif into Tamil, in Heartiley Battery. There is an obvious nod [...]

You can listen to the songs here. Vellaripraavinte Changaathi is apparently a story that was filmised in the 70s, but couldn’t be completed, and is being made again by the then director’s son in the same settings. How true the director has made the movie to the age shall have to be seen, but the soundtrack presented [...]

You can listen to the soundtrack here. Chikni Chameli was out earlier this week, even a preview of its video is out on TV. And after multiple listens, the song is still as much of an energy booster to me as it was the first time, courtesy big time to Shreya Ghoshal. With Ajay Atul’s [...]

You can listen to preview of the songs here. Director Lal Jose and composer Vidyasagar better have had a good enough reason for disfiguring Omana Thinkal Kidavo the way they did in Spanish Masala. Nikitha’s attempted foreign accent in rendition comes off as totally fake.  And annoying. The composer goes Latino for the rest of [...]

You can listen to previews of the songs here. Lead composer Gopi Sundar does three songs for Casanovva. The theme song could be alternately titled as “Mohanlal’s tutorial on how to propose in x different languages”. Musically it has very little to offer, the background being a middling mishmash. And listening to the lines of [...]

- Ajay Parasuraman Apologies for the really long break I decided to take. Hope to be more regular from now on. Maintaining the balance between Carnatic and Hindustani Ragas, my fourth edition of the “Identity of a Raga” series comes from the North. One of those Raags to which you can listen no matter what [...]

Listen to the soundtrack here (link courtesy @iPeeKay) Jis Jagah Pe Khatam is basically an announcement that this soundtrack comes from the same team that gave you Race, such is the memory it evokes of its title track. But the arrangement, and the singing by Neeraj Shridhar, Mauli Dave and Siddharth Basrur, does pack enough [...]

Despite the déjà vu feel Mujhe Chhod Ke makes for a nice listen in both its versions, thanks to the allure of the ghazal-esque arrangement from lead composer Ouseppachan and fabulous vocals by Hariharan and Shreya Ghoshal respectively. The plucky Every Day charms in parts, especially the Ouseppachan-trademark violin sequence that opens the track. The [...]