Fusion in the name of ‘Namo’
The immediate reaction to witnessing the name of the album [‘Namo’] is whether it has political overtones, but the misapprehension is quickly addressed to the contrary on listening to the debut effort from Namo...
Musical PAsSAges
Music forum focuses on life beyond Bollywood
The recently concluded All About Music was a two-day all-inclusive knowledge sharing and networking conference for the Indian music industry, held in Mumbai (August 27 & 28, 2019). The conference addressed the challenges facing...
Perfect Amalgamation
What a remarkable week it has been. For starters, a college mate, Ninad Karpe, who produced a Marathi play based on Hitchcock’s ‘Dial M For Murder’, ‘A Perfect Murder’, convinced me to attend it...
Transcendence of two musical worlds
A 24-minute delayed commencement to an Indian concert is not only a pleasant surprise, but also becomes the potential precursor for a memorable concert, and so it was on June 8, 2109 at Mumbai’s...
Another brick in the digital wall
Vinyl Records are back, and how! Vinyl sales grew by double digits last year, moving nearly 10 million units in 2018. Vinyl in the U.S. accounted for an estimated 9.7 million album sales in...
Hart-felt Blues? You Beth!
On “Medicine Jar” [from Wings’ ‘Venus And Mars’ album], former Beatles Paul McCartney sang about “there’s more to life than blues…” but, fortunately, he was not talking about the genre. But Blues – in...