Maybe Is Open Tonight

In a beautiful day with dreams of clay
I’m out in the sun
Where do I belong, I’m all alone 
Walking all the way
Eyes open wide awake
Think its all fate
That’s why I’m here alone

I stare at the sun 
Cover my eyes
Daylight slips through my fingers 
Eyes wide shut
Yellow fields, sky painted ochre
Closer to life
A lie in disguise

Say a thousand words that say
That convey, it’s away
A day will soon be over here
There will be no tear, with no one to hear
But I’ll turn around my fate
reach the golden gate 
That’s why I’m here alone

I stare at the sun 
Cover my eyes
Daylight slips through my fingers 
Eyes wide shut
Yellow fields, sky painted ochre
Closer to life
A lie in disguise


Lonely streets are all I see
They say truth, where can it be
I think it’s up in the sky
I’ll find it before I lie down

Shadows melt over the ground 
The sun goes down, out of my sight
I think its up in the sky
It’ll find me before I lie down….

Heretic - Alone

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

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A Saranga Convergence started out from a quest initially to make a psychedelic song. However what came about was a song that had strong influences of progressive rock and time signature experiments along with a carnatic 'thillana like' melody . This whole song came about within a few hours of jamming with the musicians and remains one of our favourites. 

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Performed by Karthick Iyer Live
Violins/Vocals/Lyrics - Karthick Iyer
Guitars - Vikram Vivekanand
Bass guitar - Naveen Napier
Mridangam/percussion - Sumesh Narayanan
Drums - Ramkumar Kanakarajan

Mixed by Biju James
Mastered by Andy Bartow
Recorded at VGP studios, Aura Studios

IndoSoul
The Indian civilization has stood the test of time, welcoming and absorbing numerous cultures along the way. It has reinvented itself with every addition, but never lost its depth. In a similar vein, IndoSoul goes beyond the confines of genre, seeks out and welcomes other musical influences, while retaining its core identity of Indianness. It breaks down superficial barriers between genres, instruments, cultures, languages to bring out deep commonalities that define great music everywhere.

A Saranga Convergence - IndoSoul by Karthick Iyer Live

A full playlist of all the current releases from Hungarian multi instrumentalist Szintra. Genres include ambient, new age, new age flute and electronic that demonstrate the versatility of this gifted artist

The Bond

A classical guitar piece with a whisful melancholy mood .

Your Hands , My Heart  /John Daddio Clarke

A Piano and Cello adaptation of Crawling by Linkin Park
Piano: @sarthakdev
Cello: @krishashok

Crawling

The first album. 

Kaushik Ramachandran - Vocals
Aamir Ismail Shaikh - Drums and percussion
Chinmay Agharkar - Guitars
Ariel Samson - Bass Guitar
Nikhil Nandkumar - Violin
 
Produced, mixed and mastered by Vishal J Singh

Engineered by Ariel Samson
Recorded at 802STudios.
 
Artwork and Logo by R. Venkatraman
Inlay content by Rahul Sharma
 
Featuring Artists
Vishal J Singh - “Sapna”
Nikhil Warrier - “Coalescence”
Vinay Venkatesh - “Batlaado”
 
Lyrics
Kaushik Ramachandran
Aamir Ismail Shaikh and Bhagesh Rathod for ‘Sapna’
Vinay Venkatesh for ‘Batlaado’
 
Songwriting
Paradigm Shift
Vishal J Singh
 
Album concept by Kaushik Ramachandran.
 
Artist Management
​Karan Patil – paradigmshift.raaga@gmail.com


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Dhuaan

One warm summer morning in a cafe in Guadalajara....

Next installment in the "Menusic" album by @onejubb, @arabjabam and myself. 

Credits:
Opening flamenco bit is from AR Rahman's "Jumbalaka jumbalaka" from the movie En Swaasa Kaatrey

Translation:
Good day, What would you like to eat? What dish would you recommend?

Lyrics:
Tortilla Fajita Sopa Flauta Salsa Guacamole
Tostada Chalupa Torta Quesadilla Margaritam (poetic licence to make it rhyme with mahnikam)
Burrito Torta Gordita Tequila Carne Guisada
Mojito Tamale Taco Poblano Pico de Gallo

Casa Venkatesa

02 She enters his life

I take the ridiculous and the sublime, add cellos, violins, guitars and random internet collaborators to make music of sorts

Crawling

Krish Ashok