Romba Super. Remember looking for St. James Infirmary in N'Awlins. Of course there is no such चिकित्सालयं there..

i am now going to sing this every diwali when the family wants me to sing a sloka

this is a new concept... do some more like this please! 

Tracks I have collaborated with other folks led by @krishashok.  Other featured collaborators in this set include raghuthaatha, @suryaragunaathan, @indian_music_fan, @ashwinvinayan, @ranjani-shanker, @hariflute, @sarthakdev and @anu-mccartney

collab

کول نیدری ساخته‌ی ماکس بروخ و اجرای جولین لوید وبر.
توصیه‌ی من این است که هیچ کار نداشته باشید سابقه و خاستگاه‌های این کار چیست و کجاست، بی ربطِ به این قبیل چیزها من ماه‌ها هرشب این ده دقیقه را شنیده و حکم کاتارسیس شخصی برای من داشته، بعد که از زمینه‌ی کار مطلع شدم در نظرم قدری بی‌قدر شد. این نمی‌تواند چیزی باشد جز احترام به عمیق‌ترین تشویش‌های روحیِ بشر فانی که مقرر است هر شب روح ناآرامش را به ورطه‌ی خواب و رؤیا بیفکند تا جان به در ببرد.

kol nidrei -- max bruch
julian-lloyd-webber

Kol Nidrei

Kol Nidrei - Max Bruch - Julian Lloyd Webber

The Badila Ensemble - Baran

Une rencontre poétique entre cordes et voix, des épopées du Royaume mandingue aux musiques de cours persanes.

A poetic encounter between strings and voice, from the epics of the Mandingo Kingdom to the music of Persian court.

CONSTANTINOPLE, avec | feat.
Ablaye Cissoko, kora (Senegal)
Kiya Tabassian, setar (Canada - Iran)

Poisson Au Fond De L'ocean

An adaptation of Ilayaraja's "En Iniya Pon" from the film Moodu Pani with fellow Raja enthusiast @mediumcoffee . This project is called "Le Rogeur" and the idea was not to do a literal cover but improvise liberally while still retaining the semblance of the original song. Here we take Raja's original harmony/chord structure & use more jazzy variants. The other improv happens in the interludes, where we start out sounding like the original interlude but wander off into different territories. We hope to do a few more of these under the "Le Rogeur" moniker over the next few weeks. And oh, another thing. For this project, in recognition of the technical challenges of Ilayaraja's golden years (the 80s), we will only use real instruments live-recorded without any software programming. 

Piano, Tonewheel organ - @Mediumcoffee
Vocals, Cello, Guitar, Bass - @krishashok

En Iniya Pon

A moderately Chennai tamil revolutionary adaptation of Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit 

Lyrics: Raghuthaatha (https://twitter.com/raghuthaatha) & @krishashok
Drums & percussion sequencing: @mediumcoffee & @krishashok
Violin, guitars, bass, vocals: @krishashok

Ration arisi, queue la ninnu (Ration rice, we stand in a queue)
Vaangarom, vera vazhi illa (to buy, we have no choice)
Fulla Kushtu, black la ticket (fully drunk, tickets in black)
eduthu, padam paatha (we buy & when we watch the movie...)

Ayyo Ayyo Ayyo ayyayo x 3
Ayyo Ayyo Ayyo

TASMAC kadaila, appan mabbu (Dad's drunk at the TASMAC bar)
Kelvi ketta, periya thappu (if we question, it's a problem)
Current cut, yeppo padippom (power outrage, when do we study?)
Kerosene light la padicchu mudippom (we will study in the light of a kerosene lamp)

Naanga ezhai (We are poor)
eppadi vaazha (How do we live)
Kelaya pudichu (holding on to a branch)
Yeri vaarom (we will rise up)
Yeah, hey, yay

College Saentu, edho padichi (we joined college, studied something)
kizhichi, kadla potu (hit on girls)
vela thedi, gaandayi, (searched for jobs, frustrated)
Ola cab ottina traffic jam (drove Ola cabs only to get stuck in traffic jams)

Ayyo Ayyo Ayyo ayyayo x 3
Ayyo Ayyo Ayyo

Nirutthi ottina, horn tholla (If we drive slowly, everyone honks)
rash-a ottna, mama tholla (if we drive rashly, the police trouble us)
adaki vaascha, pammureenga. (If we stay docile, we are oppressed)
nimundhu keta, amuthareenga (If we question that, we are oppressed)

road-u illa (there are few roads for us)
medu pallam (roads full of obstacles)
ellam thaandi (we will cross all those)
yeri vaarom (we will rise up)
Yeah, hey, yay

Mayila pudchu, kaala keela (if you catch a peacock)
odachu aada sonna (break its leg & ask it to dance)
Kuyila pudchu, goondla geendla (if you catch a songbird)
adachu, paada sonna (cage it and ask it to sing)

Ayyo Ayyo Ayyo ayyayo x 3
Ayyo Ayyo Ayyo


Aana ippo Murattu Kaala (But now we are raging bulls)
Seeri paanja, merusal aava (as we pounce, you will be dazed)
Cykil gap la, Auto pola (in a narrow gap for cycles, we will drive an auto)
nozhanju vaarom, odhungi nillu-a (and come through, give us way)

Vasadhi illa (We have no opportunities)
Asadhi illa (No laziness)
muyarchi senji (but we will try)
yeri vaarom (we will rise up)

Yeri Vaarom x 9 (we will rise up)

Smells Like Kerosene

An acoustic arrangement of "Raah mein bicchi", a thumri that originally featured in the soundtrack of the Shyam Benegal movie, Sardari Begum

Vocals: @suryaragunaathan
Acoustic Guitar: @mediumcoffee 
Classical Guitar: @krishashok
Flute: @indian_music_fan (Vijay Kannan)
Piano, Bass, Violin, Arrangement, Mixing & Mastering: @krishashok




Raah Mein

This is played on electric setar.
Photo by Sibon Media Ltd.

Solo Setar Badinerie

An alternative arrangement for James Vasanthan's hit "Kangal Irandaal" from Subramanyapuram. 

Vocals: @ashwin-vinayan
Percussion & backing vocals: @mediumcoffee
Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Arrangement, Mixing, Mastering: @krishashok

Kangal Irandaal

An ambient adaptation of Ilayaraja's "Mandram Vandha" (Cheeni kum hai in Hindi) from Mani Ratnam's Mouna Ragam 

@mediumcoffee - Electric guitar, Keyboards, backing vocals
@krishashok - Cello, classical guitar, bass & lead vocals

Mandram Vandha

A Sanskrit adaptation of St James Infirmary Blues, a 200 year old song made famous by Louis Armstrong's version in 1928.

Piano, bass & guitar: @mediumcoffee
Vocals, Cello, Violin, mixing, mastering: @krishashok
Lyrics: Translation/Adaptation by @krishashok
Sanskrit expert consultation: Vaishnavi S & SP Suresh (twitter.com/vajrabhrt)

चिकित्सालयं गतवानहम्
I went down to the infirmary
तत्र मम प्रियाम् अपश्यं 
I saw my lover there
सुप्ता सा विस्तरे अजीवा
Lying she was on a bed
शिशिरा गौरी मधुरा 
Cold, Fair & Sweet

विमुञ्चस्व मङ्गलं भूयात् 
Let her go! God bless her
यत्र कुत्र वा भवतु 
Wherever she may be
मार्गयतु सर्वां भूमिं 
She can search the whole world
मां इव कान्तम् न प्राप्स्यति
She's not going to find a lover like me

artwork: Ria Munk on her Deathbed by Gustav Klimt

Shishira Gouri Madhura

Winds Blow Us Down to the Earth

From now you can close your eyes

Download link : http://www.mediafire.com/download/glytz8lcpo4eiqp/Moslem_Rasouli_-_Number_5.mp3

Mim Rasooli - Number 5

https://www.instagram.com/pouriya_raisi
https://www.facebook.com/Elifinhecesi/videos/265033453900855/

Pouriya Raisi - Bi zamani

Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie

Gnossienne: n. a moment of awareness that someone you've known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you've never fully explored-an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

هنا هامِشٌ یتقدّمْ
او مرکزٌ
یتراجَعُ
محمود درویش/ طباق

Hello Monsieur Satie

Kevin Kern - Pearls of Joy

موسیقی فیلم کنعان
آهنگساز : کریستوف رضایی

Canaan-Christophe Rezaei / کنعان-کریستوف رضایی

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

Shishira Gouri Madhura

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