Waiting At Dusk - Mysterious Duality

A cover of Keane's "Somewhere only we know" with @anu-mccartney on vocals and @mediumcoffee on slide & organ.

Somewhere Only We Know

"The carnatification", a carnatic musical presentation on a electric guitar is what makes the album entirely different from the others in the market. The  carnatification is nothing but CARNATIC MODIFICATION . The album is filled with pure essence of carnatic music of highest order, comprising of high standard and popular krithis by the greats such as muthuswamy dikshidar, thyarajar, periyaswamy thooran , patnam Subramaniayam Iyer, madurai mani Iyer and purandaradasar. And as a highlight have my first composition too, a peppy ragamalika number. 
               
                   THE UNIQUENESS 

               The album is distinctly unique for the style of playing with double octaves , harmonies, and artificial harmonies and highly grooved swara sections which are completely new to the audience of carnatic. . I LL assure it to be a youth favorite because of the electric guitar factor and the recording quality and the brand names in the album.

              BIG SHOTS IN THE ALBUM

            THE CARNATIFICATION  has some real big names who are currently at the peak in the carnatic feild. I have been accompanied by my dad and percussion maestro Prapancham Ravindran on the mridangam , kanjira maestro B.S.Purushottam and hugely reputed DR.S. Karthick on the Ghatam. The 3 rhythm heroes have provided some brilliant grooves with the electric guitar , thus making it sound epic. 


Maha Ganapathim

Parikrama - Open Skies

卐 Om Anjaneyaye Vidmahe
Mahabalaye Dhi-Mahi
Tan no Hanuman Prachodayat 卐

Lord Hanuman

Credits :-

Produced by Achint Thakkar at Pyramind Studios, San Francisco & Shalimar Studios, Mumbai
Mixed by P.A.Deepak at A.M Studios, Chennai & JSW, Mumbai
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios, London

Vocals on 'Tandav', 'Forest Fires', 'Impression', 'Exit Shalimar', 'Last Dance' - Achint Thakkar 
Vocals on 'Komal' - Neeti Mohan
Vocals on 'Impression' - Bibi Swarn Nooran
Rap on 'Impression' - Blaaze
Naveen Kumar - Flute
Yogesh Mohre - Shehnai
Suraj Manik - Bass 
Shalom Benjamin - Bass 
Lynda Arnold - Flute
Ajay Jayanthi - Violin
Rupak Dhamankar - Tabla
P.V.Thirumurthy - Nadaswaram

Additional Vocals: 
'Tandav' - Joginder Diwana
'Impression' & 'Meeting The Mountain' - Oriel Poole 
'Bhetasi', 'Moonlight Sonata' & 'Last Dance' - Eden Shyodhi
'Enter Shalimar', 'Bhetasi' & 'Last Dance' - Bhutte Khan & Multan Khan
'Enter Shalimar' & 'Bhetasi' - Pawni Pandey
Male Choir for 'Exit Shalimar' - Parth Pandya, Harshvir Oberai, Aniket Mangrulkar, Karunesh Talwar, Premal Raval, Suraj Manik, Shalom Benjamin, Aaron Carvalo, Ayan De, Viraj Saxena, Krishna Purohit, Neil Batavia, Omar Iyer

Recording Engineers :
Brett Jonhson at Pyramind Studios, San Francisco
Achint Thakkar at Shalimar Studios, Mumbai
Tanmay Bhattacharjee at Cotton Press Studios, Mumbai
Ben Fernandes at AudioSlam Studios, Mumbai
P.A.Deepak at A.M Studios, Chennai
Kartik Sekeran at A.M Studios, Chennai

Album Cover Photography - Omar Iyer
Album Cover Design - Vijesh Rajan
Inlay Art - Neil Batavia

"Komal" & "Impression" based on poems by Bulleh Shah
"Moonlight Sonata" composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven

Shalimar

Tandav

iTunes

A song about the stigma and taboo around mental illness.  Created for the White Swan Foundation for Mental Health by Swarathma. Watch the music video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFRE0gDefgg

Moving Minds - White Swan Foundation

Main Unme Se Nahin Hoon

Another magical Kaushiki Chakroborty Desikan song..

04. Phire Jaa Re Mon Ja from Jaani Dyakha Hawbe (2011) - [www.Mp3Kolkata.Com]

https://www.facebook.com/vinodsmusic/videos/1688416104537123/

Presenting my next production with IndianRaga - Nostalgia in Ragas featuring a mix of Hindustani and Carnatic ragas - Kalavathi and Valaji. I've arranged a melange of melodies in these 2 ragas that includes a varnam in Valaji ragam composed by violin maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman, with a thumri in raga Kalavathi - ""Piya nahi aaye sakhi"" and the film song ""Kaahe tarsaaye"" from the film Chitralekha (1964). Beautifully performed by Roshni Narasimhan (vocal), Akash Gururaja (violin) and Samyuktha Sreeram (ghatam) and yours truly on the keys and arrangement.

Download free audio MP3 of this performance at https://indianraga.com/music-download/

Nostalgia of Ragas - Kalavathi

Moko Kahan - Kabir Bhajan - Sooryagayathri - Vande Guru Paramparaam

Bantu Reethi Kolu - Carnatic Instrumental - Nadashwaram

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

Somewhere Only We Know

Krish Ashok