Music

Album Review — Bombay Makossa

There is a thing with the term fusion music. The word itself has lent itself to lot of hyper-generalization, abuse and a “catch-all” genre for the music labels and sometimes the musician themselves. I prefer the word collaboration, but that doesn’t really sound like a name of…

Album Review — Beyond the Ragasphere

One of the truly amazing artists I discovered — thanks to Shakti — is Debashish Bhattacharya. But my problem was Debashish’s published albums were neither in the traditional format nor were works of any great collaboration or fusion.

Ringtones

With so much great music around, I figured it was dumb to use stock sounds as ringtones. I set out to creating a few ringtones myself, using great compositions others have created from time to time.

Would like to share few of those for your enjoyment. You may, of course, download…

Ilayaraja glows again

It is not often that a single song comes off as worthy of a full review, at least not in the last 10 years or so. The last review-worthy IR song was Om Sivoham from Naan Kadavul.

Also, sometimes I feel conscious that I don’t track film songs closely enough to…

Bliss

Its 4:17am. Came home from work late. Got stuff to do before I head back to work at 7am.

Happened to see this video. I have no idea why — but the moment I saw this, there’s tears in my eyes. Shrinivas has such profound effect on me not just because he is a prodigy but also because of his…

MSQ

I believe it was in ’99 or 2000 when I met this maestro of Violin. I dont recall how I found his coordinates or for that matter, how he let me spend an hour of his time at his place in Balaji Nagar, Royapettah, Chennai.