The agony and ecstasy of reviving a
bhavageete treasure A determined music label has rescued from dust and
fungus 32-year-old Kannada recordings of greats like Kalinga Rao,
Ananthaswamy and Ashwath. The wildy enthusiastic listener response is
making Velu of Lahari Recording euphoric More
Deep Purple and deeper memories
The pioneering band is coming to Bangalore on April
1. C K Meena digs out the city's old love affair with rock, and wonders
why the IIMs and the IITs were smitten by flower power and rock More
Teach me mommy one more time
Faced with stiff competition from other teen singers
like Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears embarks on a novel, and could end
up looking like a pop sensation who also thinks and writes books More
Gandhi and pop peace Ahimsa is a high novelty album with lyrics in
Sanskrit, Latin and English, but it gives Yesudas no opportunity to sing
what he is good at More
Softer please, we can hear you!
Amaan and Ayaan blast away at a concert with the
southern mandolin player U Rajesh, unmindful of people in the hall holding
their heads in dismay More
A Chiru album out of
Africa The Chiranjeevi-starrer Mrugaraju is rich in production values, as are
its songs, but then who said lavishness is all? More
Sanjay uvacha (or what Sanjaya
said) Sanjay Subrahmanyan, who ranks among the star young
performers on the southern concert stage, airs his views on gurus, critics
and websites More
A stream come
true A virtual school run by two young singers streams
lessons in Karnatak music, and helps students interface with great gurus
More
The various shapes of
clay Creed have won a bevy of awards, the latest being the
Billboard 2000 honour for best rock group. Human
Clay is their third album More
A cool guy, an artist and a freedom
jam For Meri Jaan, Vasundhara
Das worked with Pravin Mani and Piyush Mishra, who were so different they
could have killed each other! The inside story More
Big writers on a neat film
album Mathadana, based on a
Kannada novel by Dr S L Bhyrappa, has music by C Ashwath and V Manohar,
and boasts the poetry of literary icons like Gopalakrishna Adiga and
Siddalingaiah More
Life, love and wit of a free spirit
called Nigey Nigey Lennon, secret lover of rock 'n' roll legend
Frank Zappa, has completed her dream album Reinventing the Wheel. Lionel Rolfe, her husband
for 25 years, writes an intimate account of her art More
The remembered village
Yesudas's new album Sitaron
Mein Tu Hi harks back to his glory days when Gori tera gaon bada pyara was a blockbuster
musical hit More
Two legends on a wonderful concert
recording A just-released compilation brings you the first ever
concert where mridangist Palghat Mani Iyer accompanied a woman vocalist. D
K Pattammal sings a rich variety of Thyagaraja compositions with
consummate artistry More
An undersea dream and a flamenco
picnic Abhay Gopaldass Adhikari, a 19-year-old reader from
Delhi, writes about two new age albums. "Some of the finest music in the
market today," he says of the label Real Music More
And the winner
is... Here's the complete Grammy Award winners' list in 100
categories. A reading of Harry Potter, and sleeve notes for a jazz album
are among the less-hyped winners More
The untold story of 'Bombro
bombro' What is the source of the Hrithik-Preity hit song
from Mission Kashmir? A Kashmiri pandit says
the original was written for a 1953 opera More
The sa-re-ga-ma of
marketing Saregama, HMV's new avatar, has many new ideas and
surprises in store. An interview with Chandrika Raman, who manages these
new initiatives More
Love them back to sound
health The art of instrument repair involves breathing new
life into veenas, mridangams and harmoniums made precious by old memories.
Meet some masters More
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