Do please come up with an album with English translations too. Regards.

Damn want to write a comment on Imphal Talkies' 'Wall', but one realizes this is not facebook and also one cannot operate the damn Sound Cloud commentary system. But wanted to say....best 'Imphal Talkies' around. Great job, guys

Now surely we need whole track in english.

Mixed by Sunil Loitongbam.
recorded in Imphal and Delhi

Eche (For Sharmila) - Imphal Talkies feat. Rahul Ram

Keys - Jimbo
Guitars/vocals - Akhu
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woke up this morning
to jam with my friend.
on my way i was called
'a Chinky boy'
i didnt mind. i didnt mind

woke up this morning
to hear the news
my brother was stabbed.
the other day a boy named Nido was killed
the other day my sisters were beaten and raped

Before every brother lose a sister
before every sister lose a brother
come out and sing out loud
No Racism No racism

we all bleed the same color
we all breathe the same air.

Chinky boy song (live) - akhu and jimbo

just recorded as fun. it was kinda treat to ourselves who were seriously engaged with the festival Where have All The Flowers gone? a tribute to late American Folk singer/activist Pete Seeger. The Song talks about electric post that are deprived of electricity and compared them with electric poles in VIP colonies. we are tired of singing about men and women. why not sing about rivers and electric poles. 
Akhu: Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica
Singthoi: Cajon
Anku :  Yu heiba
Yaiphaba : burnt the mosquito coil
Chinglemba: Missing Boy

electric post

'Mr. President is Coming' is a track from the band's upcoming album When the Home is Burning which is soon to be released under the banner of Giant Leap Records which is a brand new record label from delhi . The song is based on a true incident. Two members of the band were canned by Imphal East Police personels in March 2013 for being  at Mahabali area near Konung Mamang. It was  the duty of the Police to check out places for security reason as the president was visiting the town. Though they should not have hit people or they hit the wrong persons. The police who hit the band members even said after seeing Akhu's moustache and beard ; 'look at you with those long hairs and moustache, what good have you done for this land?' 

Mr. President is Coming |Teaser| - Imphal Talkies

Eise Eini Kaorurey

Meira Paibi

"Ayekpa lai"

This song was written on 11th may,2015and it was composed in just a two days...................


Nangbu nungshibana ngaoraba thamoisina
Koure nangbu toina

Chakliba meire khangliba meisa 
chintharaklepirangsu leppa leita nonglikumna

Lengdana leihwe eid kanglaba upal gum
Kenkhi ngd unagum malang bana humbada

Wakhal nadi khaliye 
thamoidasu sahum fange

Musi musi nganliba thamoisida 
khoithumlaba waheising duna 
pangthahanbiramle eibu

kaihoubiramlaga karige eibu laknarebaa......

lapthoke khale eid ngge nafam dei 
kouba ngam da leir eeid

lapthoke khale eid 
karam na kougani ngbu

Nang di ayekpaa lai ni eige
Eige thamoi da yeksanbiramle

Ayekpa Lai (demo track)

In a little over 4 months I will drop an album that is unlike anything you've heard from me. This song will be on it.

Back at the school where I learned to be a fool 
On a hill halfway to heaven 
Headmasters of mine blurred all the lines 
Before I turned eleven
They cut me loose in the world before my head unfurled 
So I was late to roll dice at the game
But a fire in me that they couldn’t see
Started burnin’ when I picked a middle name

It was some kind of religious game
They told me to pick to the name of a saint
Imagine living up to something that you ain’t
I had to memorize
A book of wholesale lies
Just to become an adult in their eyes
It was out of style
It seemed so infantile
A cult built on denial
But I picked my middle name
And I learned to play the game

So I picked St. John
And they said “oh the apostle of love”
And I said, “oh no, you’re wrong”
That’s not what I was thinkin’ of
I was thinking of John the Baptist
Always disappointed, always slightly pissed
At all the major points that the elders missed
On this name I must insist
And they said “okay”
Cause to them it didn’t matter anyway
It was really all a charade
Just a social game that I played

It was out of style
It seemed so infantile
A cult built on denial
But I picked my middle name
And I learned to play the game


Middle Name (radio edit)

Mangkhi Uba Ngamdana

Singles

Meikhu gi Wari

Meikhu Gi Wari

recorded at Prateek's place thru his TASCAM recorder.

P-thadoi (demo)

Imphal Talkies was formed in 2008 by Akhu Chingangbam with Sachin Angom and Riki Chingangbam. The band released its debut album Tiddim Road in 2009. The band releases its music under its own record label Oomorock Records. Raju Athokpam, a software engineer, joined the band in 2009 March. The band dedicated a song “Eche” in 2010 to Irom Sharmila, a lady who has been on hunger strike since Novemeber 2000 as an act protest demanding the repeal of the draconian act, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. The Imphal Music Project was concieved by Akhu to create a platform among artists from Indian sub continent. And the project has released two songs. The band is currently working on the second album "When the Home is Burning", plan to release in October 2012

Eche (For Sharmila) - Imphal Talkies feat. Rahul Ram

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