Now playing!

Bruce Springsteen...aka "The Boss".
Album- The Rising

Ravi Shankar - Chants of India
OST- Thomas Crown Affair (The new one)

Schindler's List - the OST is as much hair-raising as is the movie - John Williams music is really classic.

Arj schrieb:

Ravi Shankar - Chants of India

Was just listening to that...i seem to keep going back to this album everyday..
Right now..
Don Williams - Greatest Hits

Savyasaachi schrieb:

Got T. Monk quartet and Coltrane at Carnegie Hall on my playing list. :)

Isnt that a great album ? apparently this album ws hidden for ages untill someone ran into these recordings in some storage and then released it !!

the synergy between thse two greats is really exciting.

I.... Have become ..... Comfortably numb

Arj schrieb:

Savyasaachi schrieb: Got T. Monk quartet and Coltrane at Carnegie Hall on my playing list. :) Isnt that a great album ? apparently this album ws hidden for ages untill someone ran into these recordings in some storage and then released it !! the synergy between thse two greats is really exciting.

Coltrane at his best and a very nice intiation to T.Monk for me.

Listenning to "Ravi Shankar- Chants of India".
Also in the playlist "Sacred Spirits-Yeha Noha" and "Yusuf Lateef- The Gentle Giant".

you must try the OST of the Thomas crown affair..had to really work hard at finding a copy..its all Jazz based and has 2 very nice tracks by Sting and Nina Simone

Hello All,

I (and a very small population of Mumbai) was thick into the "Concert Season" of the Symphony Orchestra of India... thus its just Classical music for me the past three weeks.

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5

Beethoven - Pastoral - Symphony No.6

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2

Rachmaninoff - Preludes for solo piano (The finest hour of piano music for me as a composition. However, the world considers "Beethoven's Diabelli variations" as that)

Cheers

Right now, I'm hooked non-stop to tracks from the new Kannada movie..'Mungaaru Male' (Monsoon Rains)

To me, the 'feel' and 'closeness' I get from the songs (especially with lyrics and music being very good) in my mother tongue always supersedes others..

Oh..,btw the movie is simple and awesome

Voodoo_CHild schrieb:

Right now, I'm hooked non-stop to tracks from the new Kannada movie..'Mungaaru Male' (Monsoon Rains) To me, the 'feel' and 'closeness' I get from the songs (especially with lyrics and music being very good) in my mother tongue always supersedes others.. Oh..,btw the movie is simple and awesome :prost

will agree in all entirety with you on that!...

switch it on.....how was the concert ? I tried to get ticks but was told they were sold out.

How is the orchestra ? How big ? any indians ? heard there were many who were hired from out of the country.

manek.

Poets of the Fall
Album- Carnival of Lust

Also in the playlist:

Kodo- The best of Kodo

Kodo-are these the Japanese drummers?

The same.

Right now, listening to my customized station 'Angel Voices' on pandora.com based on recommendations from the 'female vocals' thread.

http://www.pandora.com/people/sachi.kenobi

Kamal schrieb:

Kodo-are these the Japanese drummers?

Yup..a very high enegy Album
Can test the system in both, Delicacy as well as Dynamics !!

Hi Savyashachi

I am looking out for “the best of kodos dvd/cd” in Banglaore. Any lead pl?

nope!..no idea..
i got these in my university's library.
promptly copied it into wav and high bit rate MP3..

Right now...
Ray Charles
Album:- The birth of Soul- The complete Atlantic and R&B Recordings(1962-1959)

Sachi, thanks for your reply. Let me try through some other source.

Any other forum member, can help me pl.

regards

nietzsche> We can try in e-bay. BTW, I've Asian Drums / Kiyoshi Yoshida I&II. If you like you can copy it.

Thanks ALS. I will drop in shortly.

regards

ALS schrieb:

nietzsche> We can try in e-bay. BTW, I've Asian Drums / Kiyoshi Yoshida I&II. If you like you can copy it.

Thats another cool percussion cd other than the Kodo drummers.
another one i love is Le tambours de monde (a.k.a. Drums of the world). got some great percussion

True, cool percussion CDs. I had listened to them once in Mohan's house & then bought thru' e-bay.

ALS schrieb:

True, cool percussion CDs. I had listened to them once in Mohan's house & then bought thru' e-bay.

I think Mohan had fallen in love with it when he listened to it at my place

you are right Arj, he had mentioned about you.

Airto Moreira- Life after that
Mickey Hart- Planet drum
Conga Kings-jazz descargas

All awesome percussion albums.

Saachi if you have started to enjoy T Monk, listen to his album 'Straight, no chaser' you'll delight in the sax.

Thanks for the suggestion Jeeves.
Will check if the library has it.

right now listening to
Mingus at Antibes...one word for it..POWERFUL!!

Album-Carmina Burana
Artist- Carl Orff (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

speechless!!

Hi !

Carmina Burana composed by Carl Orff is great. I have the version played by Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS Records Masterworks).

A must have for lovers of Western Classical Music.

Carl Orff was a German composer born in Munich in 1895 and died in 1982.

SDhawan schrieb:

Hi ! Carmina Burana composed by Carl Orff is great. I have the version played by Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS Records Masterworks). A must have for lovers of Western Classical Music. Carl Orff was a German composer born in Munich in 1895 and died in 1982.

The theme in the old Old Spice commercials and the background to the opening sequence of Conan the Barbarian.



K

Agreed!!..the album is a masterpiece.

Conan the Barbarian soundtrack is simply superb.

Hi Switch-it-on,
What is this Symphony of India. Do they have a site, have they any recordings. Who's is the Conductor. The pieces you mention are quite ambitious ones. Would love to know more about them. Its hard to believe though that India could ever have a real symphony orchestra.
Purnendu

SOI

Symphony orchestra of india now resides at NCPA which is its home. Its a young orchestra made up I think of indian and foreign musicians. I missed their concerts the last time round....wonder if they are performing now.

manek.

Selections of Connie Francis
Dido - Life for Rent

Nothing like female singers to brighten up a Sunday.
And for weekdays, there's always classical

BTW, I attended a show conducted by the Madras Chamber Orchestra at the Russian Cultural Centre a month ago. A committed group of senior artistes who gave a mix of solos and group performances.

Might attend an accordion show the coming week by a French duo

lucky you...I love the accordion....alas no shows here.

The french are a class apart on that instrument. probably the sweetest instrument next to the flute.

enjoy

manek.

Indian Night Live- Stuttgart '88
-Artist- Hariprasad Chaurasia (Flute)

Sachi I believe this album is fantastic but just cant get it here. Maybe I'll have to get it on the net.

Oh wow...it is unbelievable.

Jeeves,
I actually got the CD from India!!

I specifically asked my dad to send me some Indian Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani). He is a big classical music buff(Regular concert goer), and he picked about 8 CDs for me.
I only just received them about two days ago .

Dasawani(Kannada)- Bhimsen Joshi

Dhrupad -Dagar Brothers

Artist / Group - Aerosmith
Album - Big Ones
Favorite Titles - Crazy, Blind Man, Crying, Jane's got a gun, Amazing, Angel, Livin on the edge

Baby do you wanna rock ?

ALBENIZ-FRÜHBECK DE BERGOS: Suite Española - New Philharmonia/ Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - Decca/First Impression Music

http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=1424

Awesome !!!!! on all counts...recording quality, the music and orchestration.

Manek.

the puttamaya world music series, french cafe and african music. lovely authentic stuff from each country. intend picking up some more in the series.

1.Mukesh- The Golden Collection(EMI/RPG).
2 CD Set ADD-Very nicely mastered.
Highly recommended.
2.Norah Jones-Not Too Late-Nice, but "Come Away With Me"
is a lot better;some tracks on this Album are pretty good, and some sound like practice session recordings.
3.Haydn-Piano Sonatas-40(GMaj),41(BFlatMaj),44(GMin),48(CMaj),& 52(EFlatMaj)-by Sviatoslav Richter.
A Very, very good Album indeed!

Kamal,

Svatoslav Richter is one of my fave pianists

A very momorable ensemble is David Oistrakh, Svatoslav Richter, Rostropovitch on Beethoven's triple concerto...one of the few times masters come together and make a brilliant music.

BTW Rostropovitch passed away a few days back. Good bless his soul. I am glad I could see/hear him the last time he came to bombay and performed at NCPA. A dream come true it was.

manek.

John McLaughin with the One Truth Band/Electric Dreams featuring one of my all time blues numebers - The Unknown Dissident.

Cheers
K

I have a "Now watching" item to share - I recently saw John Scofield in concert. He played with his trio. A superb artist known for his rock-Jazz tunes.

John Scofield Bio

The opening act was the local college's Jazz Ensemble, which was a Jazz big band. Many of the students there were 1st & 2nd year students but man, were they good or what! I was stunned to learn that they were just 1st & 2nd year students - they were that good!!

Tomorrow, if all going well, I will be going to see Spyro Gyra in concert. I have several of their LPs & a Best of CD as well. The plan is to take this Best of CD along & see if I can get it autographed from Jay Beckenstein himself

A very momorable ensemble is David Oistrakh, Svatoslav Richter, Rostropovitch on Beethoven's triple concerto...one of the few times masters come together and make a brilliant music.

That should have resulted in a truly memorable album-details of the Cd plz Manek so that I can look for it. Thanks