nice mix of tamil and telugu songs ... good voices :)

This song was laid down with great vengeance and furious anger by 
Harish - arrangement & programming
Ashok - violin & ambimama
TR - Counter outrage

Bulp Piction

Yamuna Yatrile/Yamuna Thatilo

The politicians are corrupt and the journalists immoral. 
The country is going to the dogs and the people are fighting like cats
America is a superpower and Britain is a former power
But nothing can change the fact that
while democracy is in worldwide destitution,
the Indian constitution is a written constitution

Arranged by: @hariflute & @krishashok
Beatz & Keyboard: @hariflute
Guitar: @krishashok
Vocals: @krishashok & @hariflute
Rap: Vijaya Thesingu Rajendar
Guitar solo composed by: Kakarla Tyagabrahmam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyagaraja)
Ambient countryside background recorded by @mdeii (https://soundcloud.com/mdeii/canalside)
Mixed and Mastered by: Navaneeth (https://twitter.com/navneethnbc)


Constitutional TRap

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

Recorded from the jamming session happened this weekend..  Rakesh P R (Kili) on keys..

Vakulabharanam [Weekend Jamming]

Farhan Rashid's single "Kabhi Sach". Heavily influenced by 80's era of Electronic music. This is the instrumental version of it. Original can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/zaphire/kabhi-sach-1

Written, sung and composed by: Farhan Rashid
Backing vocals and production: Farhan Zameer

Kabhi Sach (Instrumental) - Farhan Rashid

Amba Nannu Brovave - Thodi

A song about relationships and their complications. How it is only when you take steps towards each other that you can resolve your differences, and find harmony.

Written by Puneet Sharma / Composed by Swarathma / Recorded at Empire Studios, Mumbai by Chinmay Harshe / Mixed by Hriday Goswami / Mastered at The Final Sound, NM, USA by Ty Degroff 

Yamuna Yatrile/Yamuna Thatilo

Myna Vajha

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