Lorien Motion Pictures are coming up with a movie called Kaafiron ki Namaaz, and have announced a contest where You can can compose something for them. Yes. With the movie, for which soundtrack recording is in progress, and names like Usha Uthup, Javed Ali, Najim Arshad, Kshitij Tarey are all set to be there on [...]
Well, like everyone else, I am mad about getting the songs of A R Rahman’s Rockstar. But seems there is no way, at least no easy way of getting it. For one, I was looking for the album every day since 20th September, the day there was so called ‘music launch’ at Hazrat Nizamuddin’s dargah. [...]
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I am not too keen a follower of movies or theater, but of course I try to remember every big name in music. Big means a name related to whatever I like in music. And one such name I remembered some two days ago, when I was listening to the songs of Saheb Biwi aur [...]
I was not a huge fan of Lucky Ali until I was given that masterpiece called ‘Get Lucky’ by my brother. But then, that one cassette changed things for me and Lucky Ali was one of the biggest names in music for me. After some time I reached college and met a guy called Vaidyanathan [...]
Hi. As you might know or not know, I was selected as a member of the Critics Jury for the music awards for Tweeples’ Film Awards (Twifi Awards). For the same I was asked to send in my picks for the best music (album), best lyrics (album), best singer (male), best singer (female), and best [...]
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Oh No, I’m not talking about the Australian river Darling. I’m talking about Vishal Bhardwaj’s already famous song Darling from the movie Saat Khoon Maaf. The song is actually very much based on Russian song Kalinka, a song written in 1860. I have no idea how much Vishal is going to acknowledge this in the [...]
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When a Pritam album comes out, the first thing I look for is whether the album has a KK song or not. The next comes which song is sung by Mohit Chauhan and then what is there by Neeraj Shridhar. Then comes the rest. But this time I was surprised with myself and the album, [...]
Siddharth Anand and Vishal-Shekhar look like in a mood to give some huge surprise with the music of Anjaana Anjaani. After the strange demand of Siddharth, of music being not-good-to-listen-for-the-first-time, there is this soundtrack list which I have got and this too has some surprises in it. For starters, the album starts with a song [...]
I love Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. But when it comes to Karan Johar, I suddenly become skeptical. I know Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have given some fabulous music for Karan’s movies from their first song together (Kal ho na ho, title), but somehow I think Karan doesn’t use the full potential of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and I think there are several proofs of [...]
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Salman Khan’s Dabangg is again composed by Sajid-Wajid and this time they are back with a big league of singers comprising of Sukhwinder Singh, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal. Here is the song list of the movie. As per reports and common sense both, Tere Mast do nain is the one [...]
Great news for the fans of non-film music. Oops, this one is only for those in Mumbai. Music producer Patrick Sebag (Kartick) and Sound Designer Yotam Agam (Gotam) are coming to Mumbai today with their collaborative project called Business Class Refugees. Kartick and Gotam are Global musicians in its truest sense as they mix local [...]
When I heard their music for the first time, I knew EarthSync had some real awesome music with them. I told them that and soon they asked me to review a few tracks. Believe me, it took me the longest ever to review even one track. Because I never knew how to review something that [...]
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Now that sounds like something big n worth waiting for. And I am getting desperate to hear this song that is supposedly sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Pakistan’s Prince Pop Ali Zafar. The song is called Ullu da Patha and is featured in the movie Tere Bin Laden, where Ali Zafar is playing lead. The [...]
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I love to keep on searching for more music. So when there is not good enough music coming out, I rarely get out of stock to listen to. Here are some things that you can listen to anytime you want. Here is a post one year old on what to listen when you are out [...]
When I left Nothern India to shift in Vellore for four years and started listening to Telugu songs, followed by Tamil and later Kannada, I thought I knew the meaning of the sentence ‘Music does not have a language.’ But when I heard Earthsync’s Laya Project, after listening to the samples given on the website [...]
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