Reclaiming the stage
Gana Cypher marries the cypher culture of hip-hop with gaana and hopes to bring the genre into Chennai’s mainstream gig culture Source link
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Paal Dabba and SickFlip hit the right note with ‘Vibe’
Paal Dabba and SickFlip with the Sunrisers Hyd team Travis Head, Heinrich Klaansen and Ishan Kishan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement What do you get when a Chennai-based rapper and a Mumbai-based electronic music producer join forces? It turns out that the ‘Vibe’ is straight-up infectious. Anish, who goes by Paal Dabba, teams up with […]
Amadou Bagayoko, Half of Malian Duo Who Went Global, Dies at 70
Amadou Bagayoko, a Malian guitarist and composer who with his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, formed Amadou & Mariam, inventing a broadly accessible sound that made fans of people worldwide who otherwise knew little about music from Africa, died on Friday in Bamako, Mali’s capital. He was 70. His death was announced by the Malian […]
How Ustad Nishat Khan’s concert turned into a masterclass in classical music
Ustad Nishat Khan | Photo Credit: Tanveer Farooqui Ustad Nishat Khan is choosy about where he performs, and so his concerts are eagerly awaited. His recent Strings of Melody show in Delhi — he played there after seven years — organised by HCL Concerts drew a full house. Nishat is the eldest son of Ustad […]
Rama, as described by Muthuswami Dikshitar
Surrender to Rama empowers Hanuman to cross the sea, a sketch by Keshav | Photo Credit: Keshav It is usual in Carnatic Music to associate certain deities with certain composers. The term frequently used is Ishta Devata, and thus when we speak of Rama, it is usually Tyagaraja who comes to mind. His illustrious contemporary […]
How relevant is the time theory of ragas today?
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan once said that when you have to play Marwa, a raag of twilight, you have to imagine stones crying in distress, waiting for the night. With that imagery, it’s hard to think of playing Marwa in bright sunlight. In the classical music tradition, predominantly in the North, it was spelt out […]
Begum Parveen Sultana continues to enchant with her energetic rendition
Parveen Sultana performing in Bengaluru Begum Parveen Sultana is 75. Her cheeks may be less rounded but her smile remains intact. She is as graceful and strikingly dressed, including a string of jasmine adorning her hair, as before. Most importantly, her enchanting voice seems untouched by time. Performing for Bhoomija Foundation’s Holi Re! in Bengaluru […]
Tickets for Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus World Tour 2025 go on sale this Saturday
Tickets for Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus World Tour 2025 will go on sale tomorrow | Photo Credit: BookMyShow Tickets for Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus World Tour 2025 will go on sale on Saturday, April 5, at 12 PM IST, exclusively on BookMyShow. The American rapper and producer will perform in India for the first time […]
Musician Fink, drummer Tim Thornton to play in Bengaluru
In 2012, British artiste Fink aka Fin Greenall made his way to India for the first time as a performer, playing every where — from a theatre in Mumbai and the NH7 Weekender festival in Bengaluru, to the erstwhile Blue Frog club in New Delhi. That is quite a range of spaces for the often-acoustic, […]
How women singers made gramophone a household object
Gauhar Jaan, first Indian artiste to record on gramophone When Thomas Alva Edison wrapped tin foil around a metal cylinder to create the phonograph (a crude recording device), in 1877, he sang ‘Mary had a little lamb’ to test it. He couldn’t possibly have imagined that in just 25 years, his ‘favourite invention’ would travel […]