Category Archives: Music

Humming Now #16

Posted on May 14, 2012 by RK

It has been a while since I contributed to my Humming Now series, I owed that much to writing non-music related posts, especially some books I read and reviewed recently. Of equally worthy mention is the fact that I have … Continue reading →

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Ringtones

Posted on March 12, 2012 by RK

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 … Continue reading →

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Coffee with me

Posted on February 5, 2012 by RK

When I was not successful getting guest writers for my 300th post, I turned on my creative hat and wrote a post in the Q&A format, with me both questioning and answering. I use the same format below to describe … Continue reading →

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Colors of Raja

Posted on January 18, 2012 by RK

Thanks to Suresh, I came to know about what I believe is the first formal release of Ilayaraja’s soundtracks. Released on MP3-only basis on CDBaby, this offers for the first time clean tracks of his re-recording scores from more than … Continue reading →

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Humming Now #15

Posted on December 29, 2011 by RK

I have long argued that music, including its more formal forms (such as Carnatic or Western Classical), is exoteric – not esoteric. Esoterism may exist in understanding of the internals and underlying theory, but the experience is always accessible to … Continue reading →

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Ilayaraja glows again

Posted on December 16, 2011 by RK

Updated 12/17 to include SoundCloud version right within the post.   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 … Continue reading →

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Humming Now #14

Posted on April 6, 2011 by RK

I have been listening to raga based music and applying raga concepts to movie songs only for the past 10 years or so. But it surprises me how a stunning variety of movie songs I like belong to the same … Continue reading →

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Vaa vaa vasanthame

Posted on February 27, 2011 by RK

“Sure as death and taxes” they say. Yet everytime somebody we know dies, a weird feeling wraps us. In an effort to express that feeling, we sometimes tend to dramatize the feeling and poetize it to the point where it … Continue reading →

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Music Review – Bada Boom

Posted on February 16, 2011 by RK

Let me preface by saying I have lot of hopes on Ranjit Barot [and more recently on Gino Banks and Arun Kumar], because they are promising drummers, who have potential to bring change to the current scene on Western drumming … Continue reading →

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Music Review – Three for the music

Posted on February 12, 2011 by RK

Image Credit Sometimes it takes sheer genius and unlimited audacity to create music that defies not only the genre confines, but imagined limitations on how music can be composed. I have listened to BV Raghavendra Rao for a long time … Continue reading →

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