This is our cover of Boyce Avenue's (with the awesome Kina Grannis) version of With Or Without You by U2!
Shikhar is too awesome to let go of. :D

Guitars: Anusha & Shikhar

Happy New Year, all!

Image: Separation by Edvard Munch

With Or Without You - Shikhar & Anusha

A concept song made for an assignment on the influence of globalization on languages. 
The structure of the song is the recital of the poem "Languages" by Carl Sandburg.
The verses in between are in Hindi and German.


These are the lyrics and the structure of our song, and the translation with it (the poem itself is in quotation marks):

Languages
- Carl Sandburg

"There are no handles upon a language
Whereby men take hold of it
And mark it with signs for its remembrance.
It is a river, this language,
Once in a thousand years
Breaking a new course
Changing its way to the ocean."

बोलियाँ बदलती हैं, बोलियाँ बिसर जाती हैं  
लेकिन एक भाषा है, सर्वव्यापी, असीमित,
और वह् है संगीत कि भाषा |
 
Translation: 
Words change, and they are forgotten.
But there is one language, boundless, universal.
And that is the Language of Music.


"It is mountain effluvia
Moving to valleys
And from nation to nation
Crossing borders and mixing.
Languages die like rivers.
Words wrapped round your tongue today
And broken to shape of thought
Between your teeth and lips speaking
Now and today
Shall be faded hieroglyphics
Ten thousand years from now."

Worte sind vergänglich
und schwinden mit der Zeit,
doch wir können sie unsterblich machen.
Durch die Sprache der Musik 
und der Literatur werden sie ewig.

Translation:
Words are transitory and they fade with time, but we can make them immortal.
Through the language of music and literature they become eternal.


"Sing—and singing—remember
Your song dies and changes
And is not here to-morrow
Any more than the wind
Blowing ten thousand years ago."

The connection, the melange around us today
Brings new sounds, new meanings
It creates a language of its own everyday.  Fusion
Music.
This language doesn’t die.
It stays. It lives on.



Composition, Lyrics, Voices:
Anusha Ramasubramoney
Simon Gmeiner
Rohini Sharma

Image: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/blogs/roil-around-the-world/7741319/Why-we-need-to-learn-more-languages

The Immortal Language (Original)

This is one of the first originals I made! :)

Started with Terence Fernandes sending me his lyrics to make it into a song! I feel deep gratitude for Terence, because if it were not for him, I would've never attempted to start composing!
Thanks a lot Terence :)

Lyrics - Terence Fernandes
Guitar & Vocals - Anusha R

Image: Getty Images

With You (Original)

The corresponding video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bHXKmwmjUI&feature=youtu.be

Run To You (Pentatonix Cover)

One of our favourite songs - with the awesome Rachel Philip.

Guitar - Rachel
Uke - Anusha 

And thanks to the songbird for singing with us! :D

Fallin' (Alicia Keys Cover) - Rachel & Anusha

Dedicated to my musical soulmate, Chantelle Menezes. 
Happy Birthday, love! This one's for you, and for the fact that you're the only one who inspires such originality from me.

Lyrics:

She moves like the wind,
Swaying like a dandelion field.
She is like the spring warmth
Strong and pure, with love revealed.

Wherever she runs and skips,
Laughter lingers in her wake.
Her smile's like the summer breeze
Her eyes, like a clear rippling lake.

She's proud like a morning star.
She's bright like the evening crimson.
She's the Autumn Soul.
She's my musical soulmate.

Musical Soulmate (Original) - For Chantelle.

I See Fire (Ed Sheeran Cover) - Nikita & Anusha

The story goes that one day I discovered this beautiful piece of music on youtube - The Gymnopedist, by Jono McCleery - and I'd incidentally been reading a poem at that time - "Places" by Sara Teasdale. And they both together took me to a far away world, filled with light and poetry and music and wonder and nostalgia. The emotions were startling, and I HAD to put them together. 
I sent an email over to Jono, and he was kind enough to let me do this! 
JONO IS THE BEST. His music and generosity are extremely inspiring to me. Please go over to his channel and listen to his music!

:)


Here is the poem:


Places 
- by Sara Teasdale


Places I love come back to me like music,
 Hush me and heal me when I am very tired;
I see the oak woods at Saxton's flaming
 In a flare of crimson by the frost newly fired;
And I am thirsty for the spring in the valley
 As for a kiss ungiven and long desired.

I know a bright world of snowy hills at Boonton,
 A blue and white dazzling light on everything one sees,
The ice-covered branches of the hemlocks sparkle
 Bending low and tinkling in the sharp thin breeze,
And iridescent crystals fall and crackle on the snow-crust
 With the winter sun drawing cold blue shadows from the trees.

Violet now, in veil on veil of evening
 The hills across from Cromwell grow dreamy and far;
A wood-thrush is singing soft as a viol
 In the heart of the hollow where the dark pools are;
The primrose has opened her pale yellow flowers
 And heaven is lighting star after star.

Places I love come back to me like music —
 Mid-ocean, midnight, the waves buzz drowsily;
In the ship's deep churning the eerie phosphorescence
 Is like the souls of people who were drowned at sea,
And I can hear a man's voice, speaking, hushed, insistent,
 At midnight, in mid-ocean, hour on hour to me.

The Gymnopedist And His Places (Jono McCleery and Sara Teasdale)

A song I recorded yesterday.
Vocals and Guitars by Anusha R.


Photo: Aaditya Rawat

Beautiful Surprise (India Arie Acoustic Cover)

This one's for Ronaan, haha with bum notes and all

PC: Aaditya Rawat

Mexico - Incubus A Cappella Cover

Khaabon Ke Parinde Cover

I think this is a lot of people's favourite songs...hope you like my version of it. :)

Guitars & Vocals - Anusha R


Image: http://www.missmatchmaker.net/archives/491

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