Surdas Bhajans
In some fields of music it is possible to use a superlative like ‘greatest’ without fear of charges of partiality or chamcha (sycophantic) designs.
17 June 2011
Review – Album
My Music – The Saregama Years
Saregama holds the largest and plainly the most mouthwatering archive of recorded music of any of the subcontinent’s record companies. This 18-CD career retrospective from the santoor virtuoso Shivkumar Sharma illustrates that proposition.
11 March 2011
Naina Lagaike
Given the reputations of vocalist Asha Bhosle and vocalist-sitarist Shujaat Khan, it might be as well to say straight away what they aren’t doing here.
11 March 2011
Classical Bhajans
One of the great and deep joys of being humanist is listening to religious music without being swamped or swept away by religious devotion or faith fervour. Faith has no dominion and music has to stand on musical merits.
14 September 2010
Nine Decades: Volume 1 (1967–68)
Nine Decades: Volume 1 untaps what is planned to be a new stream of releases of audio and visual material from the Ravi Shankar archives
7 June 2010
Hello Hello
The Delhi-based Midival Punditz are back with their highly-anticipated third studio album Hello Hello. The innovative duo consisting of Gaurav… Read More
22 September 2009
The best of AR Rahman
There is no doubt AR Rahman has the technological exuberance and musical execution to match upon hearing this album.
12 June 2009
Songs for a Global Journey
With track titles such as ‘Red Sea’, ‘Railway Dreams’, ‘Basant’, ‘Macondo’ and ‘Fronteras’, it’s no surprise that ‘Songs for a Global Journey’ was ‘intended to inspire in us a zest for voyaging’.
11 December 2008
Tappa Journeys
Over the last 40 or so years, British Indian classical music lovers have had the pleasure of hearing the great and the good. But few artists have presented Tappa.
11 December 2008