Prashant Pillai’s Bali is trippy, but perhaps goes overboard. He gets his groove in Nasha and O Yaara – eminently tuneful, both! It’s also easy to identify Amit Trivedi in...
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Bada Boom (Music review), Jazz/Fusion – Ranjit Barot
Singularity starts like a disjoint tapestry of sounds, but comfortably settles into its groove. The legendary John McLaughlin makes a cameo, together with Ranjit on konnakol, Punya Srinivas on Veena...
Continue reading...Music review: Muskurake Dekh Zara (Hindi – Ranjit Barot)
There’s something still distinctly 90s indipop in Ranjit Barot’s music. And it permeates all through this soundtrack. Sahi bola and Aye dost have an easygoing street-smartness that would have wowed,...
Continue reading...Music review: Acid Factory (Hindi – Assorted Artists)
Shamir Tandon’s languorous ambient sound in Yeh jism is pretty neat, while Khatti meethi, by Manasi Scott is an uncomfortable overdose of the Justin Timberlake’sque hip-hop sound! Gourov Dasgupta’s reworking...
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