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...
Musical PAsSAges
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...
True Soul Of Rajasthani Music
Each country has their own folk music but here, in India, each State has its own. And so it was quite a revelation when the “Sounds Of The Desert” arrived in Mumbai on January...
Discovering Blues through festivities
The 2019 festive season for Blues has officially opened…yet again…not that it had gone anywhere, with the annual Mahindra Blues Festival – Asia’s largest event for that musical genre – returning to Mumbai’s Mehboob...