Being an avid music enthusiast and an aspiring performer, I always scout for good quality music! While the Indian film industry does produce some good numbers, there are a host of other gems that are obscure, yet ornate! Thanks to the internet and social media, that these gems are easily accessible now, if one is really on the lookout. Once found, what I like doing apart from just savoring the delicacy myself, is discussing them with others in anticipation of an enriching conversation, perhaps unearthing a few other gems in the process or educating the other about a musical nuance! While the discussion technique was limited to chains of unsolicited pings to my music-buddies (sometimes to the extent of pestering them :-P) as well as blasting and sharing my eureka moment on forums that I myself created to this avail! Then I thought why limit this to my known circle and why not put it out there on the word wide web, hoping someone gets entangled at some point! So yes, that’s the brief background and I better get to business before you swipe me left!
While we are on music, what is universal about it is that it is a great icebreaker! From past experiences, while one may believe in different view points, one can often find a common ground in music. There are perhaps countable few people I have come across who loathe music and feel it’s a waste of time. But with the rest, although one's genre likings maybe way different, one can always find that one common song, album or singer, which instantly puts a smile onto each others faces and makes that connect. Worked for me time and again. And perhaps in these times of armchair-activism where even closest of friends become digital enemies taking diagonally opposite ideological positions and blindly supporting them, music does provide that much needed break from the futile, heated mud-slinging on social media!
Not wanting to take the risk of losing you at the very point of my re-incarnation, let me conclude here by leaving you with this recent upload - Jaago Piya from Berklee College of Music (and they do some amazing productions!), which I loved the first time I heard. This was released on the eve of Bengali New Year composed by a Bangladeshi musician - Armeen Musa.
This song is not just to be heard, but to be seen, felt and experienced as well! The soothing melody, vocal harmonizations, the perfectly fused arrangement, the multi-cultural crew sporting the traditional bangla gamcha in rather creative ways, the smiling faces, the beautiful messages on the placards which you relate to, Layth's (the violin guy) heavenly solo, Annette's expression of having done it in the end and perhaps umpteen other moments in this composition that I look forward to each time I replay this track, while discovering a few more of them!
So without getting into any technicalities (for which I think I need a full blog post!), let me leave you to experience this masterpiece as a feeling, as an emotion, as an aura that fills you all around with positivity and hope, or perhaps even as a prayer! A prayer after-all is something supposed to connect you up there, which to me this does! Do let me know your share of those 'moments' which perhaps I have missed. Here's looking forward to adding a few more music-buddies to my list! :)
- Prabhu
So without getting into any technicalities (for which I think I need a full blog post!), let me leave you to experience this masterpiece as a feeling, as an emotion, as an aura that fills you all around with positivity and hope, or perhaps even as a prayer! A prayer after-all is something supposed to connect you up there, which to me this does! Do let me know your share of those 'moments' which perhaps I have missed. Here's looking forward to adding a few more music-buddies to my list! :)
- Prabhu
