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It's All Just Pretend

Don't Lose Your Love

The genius Carnatic vocalist Madurai Mani Iyer (1912-1968), possibly the greatest exponent of live improvisation in Carnatic classical music, popularized this "English Note" composed by Harikesanallur Mutthiah Bhagavathar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNjl5w8Prw0) to showcase his autodidactic (self teaching) talent in expanding beyond his strictly classical training. This piece was extremely popular with an independence era audience that felt pride in one of their own "getting" western music while no Englishman could perform a Thodi alapana. 

Obviously as a Indian classical musician, Mutthiah Bhagavathar only composed the main melody, an incredibly catchy and hummable tune that would have worked in the best courts of Vienna. But Western classical music is about harmony layered over the melody and I was surprised that no one had taken a crack at taking this really catch melody and writing a String quartet around it. 

There were some interesting challenges. Mani Iyer clearly did not keep harmony in mind when he wrote the piece so there are places where the melodic sequence presents quite a hard challenge to harmonize, but all in all, I think it turned out okayish. 

Again, I am quite an amateur and It will be great if more talented musicians take this melody and set it to even better background scores :)

English Note (by Madurai Mani Iyer) - String Quartet

Hey Big Bang

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Golden Coast's sophomore release is the quintessential summer anthem for anyone who ever uttered the words "college is for lemmings." Hot on the heels of July's breakout debut, "Dream And An MPC" (an MPC is an early 90's beat-making machine) is this generation's echo of the Pink Floyd sentiment to break the societal mold and be yourself, aptly summed up in the chorus lyric: "We don't need no education to be; all we need is a dream and an MPC."  The infectious opening synth hook sets the perfect tone for a cascade of indie pop goodness to follow that will have you dancing throughout and leave you thirsty for more.

LYRICS:
Mama told you to live your dream
But daddy said university
So you became an afflicted teen 
Your soul addicted to apathy

Tried to get you to do your thing
But you were busy with self relief
Sat inside by yourself all day
Maybe you're better alone that way
I say

We don't need no education to be
All we need is a dream and an MPC 
So set aside the rhetoric and be free
All we need is a dream and an MPC

Things would never have worked that way
You tell yourself all alone each day
So you will not have to face the fray
But deep inside you it eats away

You were meant for another time
When a 4 year bachelor would do just fine
But you would never have crossed that line 
Don't kid yourself, you're a paradigm

Keep your vertigo
It's all you need to know
Don't let that feeling go
Hold on now, hold on

Dream And An MPC

Cheyenne

The Birds of Finland

Apple Music: smarturl.it/Dreamer-Single
Spotify: smarturl.it/TWINKIDS-Spotify

Cascine's singles label, CSCN, is pleased to introduce LA-based duo, @TWINKIDS. "Dreamer," the first proper single from the project, is slow building and self aware, an upward spiral of blinking keys and street-ready percussion parts. Composed as a love song to nobody, "Dreamer" is a sexually charged musing on the inner explosions of early romance.

TWINKIDS hail from Oberlin, the same musical cornucopia that famously spawned Trans Am, Teengirl Fantasy, True Panther Sounds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more. The duo's disparate musical backgrounds are present in the material - one worked as a J-Pop songwriter in Tokyo, whereas the other studied classical piano at the collegiate level. Together they make music that strives to bend the defintion of pop music while paying homage to its forward thinking contributors, big and small. 
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TWINKIDS - Dreamer

Composed by @hariflute as a memorial tribute to our friend Balachandar's Dalmatian Tommie, who passed away recently. (http://vimeo.com/28183556)
Piano - Harish
Violins (One acoustic &amp; one electric) and Cello - Krish Ashok
The Cello presented a few recording challenges, primarily one of mic placement. But since the notes being played were in the lower registers, it turned out OK. It will be interesting to see how higher pitched notes sound with this placement because they sounded quite nasal when I tried it out.
For the acoustic violin, I used a Samson condenser mic but I'm not altogether sure the placement was right. A 100 year old German violin really ought to have a brighter, heavier sound without any fancy processing. But well, I suppose one has to keep trying. To avoid background noise, I had to switch off the fan and the A/C, which made it quite uncomfortable in the room.
The Electric violin of course is quite simple. Just plugin straight into the sound interface and one is good to go, but unless the instrument is quite high end, it's impossible to get that particular natural violin sound. I'll need a few more promotions at work to afford a better electric violin though.


Missing Tommie

Landings is Liam Quinn, Aidan Hogg and Michael Valenta

Video: https://youtu.be/SbUuH0W4-RY
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5guEBdUiyA4tOiySVBpa7U

Produced and written by Landings // Brisbane
Co-produced and mixed by Jean-Paul Fung // Sydney
Engineered by Aidan Hogg and Liam Quinn // Brisbane
Assisted by Andre Johansson-Walder and Nell Forster // Brisbane
Mastered by Joe LaPorta // New York
Cover art by Marlene Morken // Oslo

My Bones

All songs written by Eliza Shaddad
Recorded at Deep Litter Studios, Devon
Engineered by Andrew Bond
Produced by Chris Bond
Mixed by Catherine Marks
Mastered by John Davis

2016

You walk in the door
But nothing stops
40 people’s small talk swelling up
It’s like they didn’t see what I just saw
But everyone’s got a choice to make, a choice to make to break to make
So much for smoke an mirrors

I see you in every room I walk into
I’d make my move but there’s an arm around your neck

I don’t know your name
But I know that I've seen your face
No I don’t know your name
But I don't need to

Don’t you feel afraid
That everything you know about commitment’s from a man with your last name
who felt the 
same as you
when he was 22
and a girl walked through the door that pulled his eyes up from the floor so he said

I see you in every room I walk into
What would you do if i just stole you for tonight

I don’t know your name
But I’ve seen a hundred tiny videos of nothing but your face
No I don't know your name
But I don't need to, no!

Say goodbye to your friends

I don’t know your name
But I’ve seen a hundred tiny videos of nothing but your face
No I don't know your name
But I don't need to, no!

Facebook: facebook.com/matingritualsounds
Twitter: twitter.com/ritualmating
Instagram: instagram.com/matingritual
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4ZeB1hzT2mSZrf7wszOqHs

Produced by Ryan Marshall Lawhon
Mixed and Mastered by Jason Suwito 
Written by Ryan Marshall Lawhon and Taylor Lawhon
Additional vocals by Lizzy Land
Additional Vocals by Taylor Lawhon
Drums by Rob Humphries

Don't Know Your Name

"When the attraction's so strong, you collide together, even if it shatters you."  The new single "Kiss and Collide" from my new "True Confessions ep" is out everywhere this Friday, March 11th!

Blondfire - Kiss And Collide

Recorded at 7:30am on a Wednesday at Alok's place in a state of grogginess :P
The vocals were taken in one take and have not been touched. So please forgive mistakes!
Hope you enjoy this! It's my 1st internet upload! :D

Credits:
Alok Merwin - For recording me :)
Roshni Maria Vincent - For making me believe I could pull this song off :)
And every one of my friends who made me put this up :)

If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys (Cover)

Piano score recorded through a MIDI keyboard and heavily corrected for mistakes. 

Ave Maria

Raga: Panthuvaraali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamavardani)
Composer: Swati Tirunal

Lyrics & Notation: http://www.shivkumar.org/music/sarasaksha.htm

Thanks to an earthing problem at home, I had to do quite a bit of jugglery to marginally mute an ugly droning sound that crept into the recording. For those interested in sound engineering, I used a high pass filter that removed the annoying bassy part of the drone. 

Saarasaaksha Paripaalaya

A violin and guitar adaptation of the song from Maryan

If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys (Cover)

Harshitha Krishnan

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