Longing features thankfully minimal and accented vocals Naveen’s 15 year old son, Jean Naveen. What stays is Naveen’s spellbinding flute and Sree Sunderkumar’s kanjira, ensconced in fantastic production by Karsh...
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Music review: Striker (Hindi – Assorted composers)
Aim lagaa‘s Rikshaw mix has a particularly nice retro’ish touch that sounds notably better than the plain version – rapper Blaaze handles the singing and composing parts admirably well. Bombay...
Continue reading...Music review: Vaamanan (Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja)
The composer ropes in Roopkumar Rathod for the almost ghazal-like Oru devadhai, that, barring a single, repetitive and annoyingly tinny rhythm, is exquisite. Aedho seigiraai is a fairly appealing, but...
Continue reading...Music review: Connections (A.R.Rahman)
Karthik/ Rahman and Raqeeb Aalam enthusiastically deliver Jiya se jiya – but the song itself is a bit of a letdown – too dense in the backgrounds as it progresses....
Continue reading...Music review: Saas Bahu Aur Sensex (Hindi – Randolph Correa, Bipin Panchal & Blaaze)
Randolph Correa’s two tracks – Abhi abhi and Mujh mein nigaah daal are poles apart. The former is a breezy track sung beautifully by Javed Ali with neat vocal effects...
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