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Bickram Ghosh’s new album “Paperboats”. A collaboration with violinist Kala Ramanath, this is a beautifully composed and recorded album, a fusion of Indian classical, Jazz and Western classical. He describes this album as a call to return to our childhood and innocence.



 
Searched for the vinyl of this movie in Kolkata but the seller demanded Rs 5000 and ngh.in demands Rs 10000. So bought the CD and also listen on line. All the songs of this Rajesh khanna starrer movie are mind blowing.
 
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Patti Smith was a “na bhooto na bhavishyati” kind of Rock singer. Blessed with strong voice which she used in an urgent style of singing, this lady could rock as well as emote at the same time. Unlike most rock singers, she had a great sense of meter and rhythm as well. And boy, could she write! Her androgynous style only raised the aura around her songs. The pioneer of punk rock, she deserves more following than she has.

‘Horses’ was her first album and she announced herself truly strongly.
 
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This is the highest sold album in music history! It lost that status to ‘Thriller’ after Michael Jackson passed away, but regained the same recently.

Eagles, if you haven’t tried are one of the most melodic and harmonic soft rock bands. You are likely to like them if you like acoustic guitar (tried alliteration in that sentence!).

Note that this compilation was for the four albums before their epic ‘Hotel California’.
 
Bickram Ghosh’s new album “Paperboats”. A collaboration with violinist Kala Ramanath, this is a beautifully composed and recorded album, a fusion of Indian classical, Jazz and Western classical. He describes this album as a call to return to our childhood and innocence.




Musically it’s good. But somehow, I couldn’t relate to international musicians on an album reminiscent of childhood. Let me explain. Childhood is purely personal - it should evoke memories from one’s own childhood. I was expecting that through the album as it’s led by two top class Indian musicians. Though I love fusion and world music, it’s the grown up in me that does so. The child needs regression back to a local setting.
 
Musically it’s good. But somehow, I couldn’t relate to international musicians on an album reminiscent of childhood. Let me explain. Childhood is purely personal - it should evoke memories from one’s own childhood. I was expecting that through the album as it’s led by two top class Indian musicians. Though I love fusion and world music, it’s the grown up in me that does so. The child needs regression back to a local setting.
Yes, Sachin, very true. We have grown very complex and our tastes in music along with it. If you ask me what reminds me of childhood, it'll be L.Vaidyanathan's score for Malgudi days TV series. That is a local setting I grew up in (Karnataka), I remember even today, fondly :)


P.S. The first/last 20 sec in the video was added by the person who uploaded , not part of the original track :)
 
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Yes, Sachin, very true. We have grown very complex and our tastes in music along with it. If you ask me what reminds me of childhood, it'll be L.Vaidyanathan's score for Malgudi days TV series. That is a local setting I grew up in (Karnataka), I remember even today, fondly :)


P.S. The first/last 20 sec in the video was added by the person who uploaded , not part of the original track :)
Hi
Sandeepss
Thank you for sharing this.I have been nostalgic because I can remember my school days when this show was telecast in DD. Gone were those days when we didn't have so many TV channels ,and the shans bahu quarrel rather literature based programmes, Bollywood movie songs, Bengali songs and some other which reminded us of our culture and tradition.
Cheers
 
Hi
Sandeepss
Thank you for sharing this.I have been nostalgic because I can remember my school days when this show was telecast in DD. Gone were those days when we didn't have so many TV channels ,and the shans bahu quarrel rather literature based programmes, Bollywood movie songs, Bengali songs and some other which reminded us of our culture and tradition.
Cheers
Thanks, Bhaskar. This show is currently available on Amazon Primevideo. As with other things in life, the content there too is transient, so I got the 6 DVD pack to relive those days :)

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