Lists

Faya – Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate Joe is a rapper, beatboxer and guitarist. Sekou Kouyate is a Guinean multi-awarded kora player. Together, they produce wonderfully eclectic music that has...

I started getting serious about Ilayaraja’s non-Tamil music only in 2010-11. It was a very random effort, no doubt initiated by Geetha’s Jothe Jotheyali. In 2012, I wrote a formal...

Bombay Makossa – Chingari (Ranjit Barot, U Shrinivas, Etienne Mbappe) I came to know about this album 15 days before Shrinivas passed away and was waiting for the mid-September release...

Just a little crush, If you feel & Open book – TV Dinners (Indipop – Mikey McCleary) One heck of an enjoyable album that clearly deserves more promotion. Really wish...

Rock and Roll Records, Someday, Cajun Moon, I’ll be there & Train to nowhere – The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale Ever since I came to know about this...

The entire soundtrack – Ramanujan (Tamil, Ramesh Vinayagam) Along-side Amara Kaaviyam, the other fantastic soundtrack from Tamil in recent times. Another soundtrack that I played a lot last month without...

Aaj ki raat – The Bartender – Classic Bollywood With A Twist (Indipop – Mikey McCleary) To be fair, I fell in love with Shalmali’s Aaj ki raat long before...

No, this is not a new section. ‘Top recent listens’ seemed like a really bland name for this list. So, made it MMMMR 🙂 Sweet Disarray – Dan Croll An...

Mast magan, Chaandaniya & Hulla re – 2 States (Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy) Dependable trio, again. They seem to be raising beyond Dharma cliches by and large, to deliver...

Happy, Brand new, Come get it Bae, Lost queen, Know who you are & Gust of wind – GIRL (Pharrell Williams) First things first, if you haven’t heard Happy, do...