You can listen to the soundtrack here (link courtesy, @iPeeKay) It comes as an interesting coincidence that I happened to listen to Viju Shah’s Tumma Tumma Ele after a long time today, thanks to a conversation with @meemeera on twitter. Pritam’s Pungi bears a strong flavor of that song – the funny exuberant arrangement led by [...]

So like I mentioned in our birthday post, last Saturday a bunch of us music lovers on twitter (@musicdipblog, @p1j, @rohwit and @dunkdaft apart from me), prompted by another music love @abhiandNOW, kicked off this hashtag called #musichat wherein we decided to start off a once-a-week open discussion on one particular genre. Week 1 had sufi as the [...]

His rendition of Pritam’s Jiyein Kyun in Dum Maaro Dum was arguably one of the best musical debuts in Bollywood last year. Those who have followed Papon before that would know this debut would come as but a small step for a man whose past collabs include such names as Indian Ocean and Midival Punditz. As with most such [...]

You can listen to the soundtrack here (link courtesy @iPeeKay as usual). Composer Jeet Ganguly’s three tunes for Blood Money are apparently reusals from his previous Bengali works. I haven’t heard the Bengali, but the Hindi versions worked fairly well for me. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan  rules Chaahat with his spectacular singing, supported to the tee by [...]

You can listen to the soundtrack here (from our customary link supplier, @iPeeKay) For the kind of laid back city that Kolkata is, Vishal Shekhar’s ode Aami Shotti Bolchi is uncharacteristically boisterous, what with the effervescent Usha Uthup  leading the affairs well-supported by Shekhar (surprised that he took up the growling instead of Vishal) and [...]

So another year passes by in the life of Music Aloud, the third one to be precise. Year no. 3 saw us take a short step towards a non-musical foray, adding Movie Reviews to our portfolio, where our reviewers provided fairly regular updates on this year’s releases in Bollywood and Hollywood. But that apart, our main focus [...]

You can listen to the soundtrack here. Composer Harpreet smartly infuses sufi-tinged portions into a breezy acoustic guitar-laden title track which sounds almost like a Salim Sulaiman work in places, especially since Salim Merchant is the lead vocalist. Lovely opener to the album. Harpreet next gets the sufi singer Sanam Marvi (famous to Indians for [...]

You can listen to the entire soundtrack here. Composer Sharath gets the two veterans Chithra and Yesudas to sing the two respective versions of Ponnodu Poovai, a song with arrangement very evocative of Rahman’s 90s style, topped with some delightful employment of the kanjira. Chithra’s version worked better for me coz of the dainty touches [...]

Click on each song name to listen to it. With some imaginative touches like Karthik’s whistling and Jaishankar Iyer’s melodica rendition over a breezy Spanish template, composer duo Aravind-Shankar’s Edho Edho charms right from the word go. Pradeep Vijay and Kalyani Nair carry the vocals part with equal sincerity, and you have a winner on [...]

(Posted on behalf of Little Big Noise) Grammy Award-winning artist/producer/DJ David Guetta will perform in India for the first time at the second edition of Eristoff Invasion this March. With chart-topping hits like ‘When Love Takes Over’ ‘Gettin Over You’ and ‘Sexy Bitch’, the world’s No. 1 DJ and one the world’s foremost music makers, [...]