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[Deleted member 15865]

Rituparno Ghosh/Gulzar/Debjyoti Mishra - OST from Raincoat (2004)

Excellent semi-classical tracks. Shubha Mudgal and Hariharan take you into a different world.

 

[Ashenden]

Excellent semi-classical tracks. Shubha Mudgal and Hariharan take you into a different world.

Yes. The soundtrack is a beautiful blend of classical, folk & traditional music

 

[Deleted member 15865]

One of the earliest usage of flute in rock n’ roll. Listen to the bridge.

 

[Deleted member 15865]

‘Meera’ - OST of the 1979 film (Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna) by none other than Pandit Ravi Shankar. Highly recommended! Excellent compositions on traditional bhajans, well-player instruments, clear recoding with good soundstage, and to top it, immaculate singing by Vani Jayaram. Her combination of sur and bhav is rare and is not surprising why RS must have chosen her for the album. Was lucky to find this jewel (in a jewel case) at an old CD reseller some time back. This is a remastered version. I’d love to hear how the original recoding sounded.

 

[Ashenden]

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‘Meera’ - OST of the 1979 film (Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna) by none other than Pandit Ravi Shankar. Highly recommended! Excellent compositions on traditional bhajans, well-player instruments, clear recoding with good soundstage, and to top it, immaculate singing by Vani Jayaram. Her combination of sur and bhav is rare and is not surprising why RS must have chosen her for the album. Was lucky to find this jewel (in a jewel case) at an old CD reseller some time back. This is a remastered version. I’d love to hear how the original recoding sounded.

Yes. Beautiful album. I too have the universal release. The original was on polydor vinyl, I think.

 

[Ashenden]

Swathi Thirunal/Neyyattinkara Vasudevan- Music from the 1987 movie

Beautiful carnatic classical compositions in a rare gem of an album

 

[Ashenden]

Rabindranath Tagore/Gulzar/Shantanu Moitra - Gulzar in conversation with Tagore

 

[Deleted member 15865]

Powerful, yet sweet. Complex, yet accessible. Speedy, yet relaxing! These guys know how to make the opposites meet.

 

[Naturelover]

Some CDs from Acoustic Portrait. Lovely music, wonderful recording.

 

[Hiten]

A very silly song that only Asha can make listenable. But pay attention to the drums and other instruments - something special.

Kishor Kumar and Asha Bhosale are my favourite. Love their voice. Even if they sing with no music it is pleasure.

There are couple of melodious song absolutely ruined silly lyrics or some by sudden injection of silly sound.
Hee Hee What has 'Zingalala Zingalala huu huu' and 'Zim zim zeem zeem zeem taara' got to do with music.

Some nice tune totally destroyed. I cant even write what is in between shalimar song something like 'maka chaka chpau naka kusuk taka maka na' LOL
May be the story/producer/whim demanded it.

But thanks to other beautiful songs those stalwart singers and music directors gave us.
Regards

 

[Deleted member 15865]

Kishor Kumar and Asha Bhosale are my favourite. Love their voice. Even if they sing with no music it is pleasure.

There are couple of melodious song absolutely ruined silly lyrics or some by sudden injection of silly sound.
Hee Hee What has 'Zingalala Zingalala huu huu' and 'Zim zim zeem zeem zeem taara' got to do with music.

Some nice tune totally destroyed. I cant even write what is in between shalimar song something like 'maka chaka chpau naka kusuk taka maka na' LOL
May be the story/producer/whim demanded it.

But thanks to other beautiful songs those stalwart singers and music directors gave us.
Regards

Yes such gimmicks might bring in more listeners then, but ensure that the song ages very fast and doesn’t become a classic.

 

[jaiwant_alex]

 

[Naturelover]

João Gilberto



And the absolutely mesmerising

 

[Ashenden]

João Gilberto

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And the absolutely mesmerising

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Thanks for reminding. I've started with Getz - Gilberto

 

[Nikhil]

João Gilberto

And the absolutely mesmerising

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Listening to this right now ... just mellow.


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[swamytk]

I am listening to my favourites from 80/90's Tamil hits FLAC/WAV:
1. Kan pesum varthai - 7G Rainbow colony
2. Chinna Pura ondru - Anbe Sangeetha (not widely known great song)
3. Thanga Thamarai - Minsara Kanavu
4. Konji Konji - Veera (mesmerising song from the God of Music)
5. Pachaikiligal Tholodu - Indian (K.J.Yesudas + A.R.R)
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Latest 6. Kaathale Kaathale - 96 (Chinmayi's silky voice)

All these I listen through Audacious media player (remember winamp? - theme is derived from this nostalgic player) on Linux machine.

 

[Ashenden]

Pachaikiligal Tholodu - Indian (K.J.Yesudas + A.R.R)

Beautiful composition

 

[swamytk]

Beautiful composition

These are trial download. I can't play for ever. Still I am yet to find out legal source of all these songs

 

[Ashenden]

These are trial download. I can't play for ever. Still I am yet to find out legal source of all these songs

You can buy 320kbps aac from google play music. Most of them are of good quality.

 

[swamytk]

You can buy 320kbps aac from google play music. Most of them are of good quality.

Google Play offers AAC files? Thanks. Let me check