Sunna le

Once upon a time, and a long long time ago, there lived……….never mind, to get the story short, I remember Murali had sent me this Tammil song called ‘Sonnalum‘, heard it and fell in love with it. A year ago I sent it to Ali and he loved it as well. We were inspired to write Hindi lyrics to it, which we did and because of lack of good karaoke track we never finished the recording. Recently I requested Anil Bs ji to make a track and very graciously he made an amazing track for me.

Here is our version of Tammil :Sonnalum” called ‘Sun-na le’. Sun-na le is not a translation of Tammil song but a beautiful tune driven flow of thoughts in our voices. Pease keep your hearts and minds open to grasp the variations and style.
Again thank you Murali for introducing me to this song, thank you Ali for singing with me and Anil-ji for making such a beautiful track for us, without your track we would have never been able to record and present it to the people.

Hope all of you enjoy it.

Original Composition :A.R.Rehman
Original Singers: Harini and Unni Krishnan
Sung by : Ali & Swati
Lyris by : Ali & Swati
Track by :Anil BS

JAANE DO NA

'Jaane do na' is one of the songs that I like,So here it is.
Enjoy.

ABB KE HUM BICHADE

Back from India fresh and fortified with music and more music.
By the time I get myself together here is a wonderful Ghazal by Ali. You have heard him sing before on my blog. This is a little different endeavor, a famous Mehedi Hasan ghazal is rearranged and sung by Ali. Check it out and let me know how you like it.
Personally Ali, I loved the ‘Sher’ at the end,was that SRK influence??????

NAINO ME BADARA CHAE

Here is a song for G.T.P.(general time pass i.e.).I have been recording some original songs but until the final product is out I thought I should put something up. Here is a song from film ‘Mera Saya’. Sung by Lata-ji, and directed by Madan Mohan. Though I have recorded this song very casually, the song is beautiful and very melodious.
Enjoy!!

TANHA LAMHOME

Ok.... after a long break here is a song called ‘Tanha lamho me’. ’ThumpiKinnaram’,was a song originally done in Malyalam, sung by Gayatri and Jesudas, music director Deepak Dev.
I fell in love with this song when I heard it; actually Pradip Somsundaran was the one responsible for it. I started thinking, what can I do to get this song in Hindi? I approached Ajay; and immediately taking no longer than five minutes Ajay had the first couple of lines written for me. Ajay, you have done an amazing job!
Jo is my partner in crime. I do not need to say anything about Jo, as almost all of you know him and his wonderful voice.Please listen to it on Jo’s blog.
Hope you enjoy it…..It’s good to be back :)

Swati.

BARASE BADARIYA

‘Barse Badariya’ is a product of Yahoo chat. It is hard to believe but yes it’s true. Singing day and night in the chat rooms, creating music rooms like ‘Sur mandir’ ,’Sa re ga ma’ , ‘Saaz aur Awaaz’ was daily activity for all of us ‘Yahooligans’. Many a times it was just waste of time but some times something productive came out of it. I met some wonderful creative people ,Murali was one of them, in our yahoo singing sessions we sung songs one after another all night long, from one song to another and through this raga to that …it was endless. Only people who have been on the chat will know the addiction.
Now that I don’t chat as much, I still am in touch with Murali , we still keep on making good music. Every few days or weeks I get a call form Murali, saying “Kaushiji, listen to this composition that I made.”
The tunes are ready, singing is done, now both of us have to make a point to complete them with music. Until then listen to this powerful composition just on a background of a note and nothing else…close your eyes and as you are listening to it try to gauge/predict endless possibilities of the full fledge bhajan.

MANA HO TUM

Sameer Jaffer was introduced to me by my friend Ali Parvez .
Sameer is a talented artist singer/composer. He plays keyboards and Guitar. By profession he is an engineer but has used his software background in music. He has his recording studio in Dallas Texas.
Here is a song from him for your listening pleasure. Hope to post an original composition from him soon.

'The Hindu'- Coverage on BLS2

Now that Blogswara 2 is out and kicking, I would like to post this link ‘The Hindu’ a leading news paper in India; they basically have covered Blogswara ‘Phenomenon’. You also might find it interesting to read the comments on all the songs, and may be add your own to it. So click here to read all the comments.