Music
Curating music for the joy of it
The desire to reach out to music aficionados is evident in Shubha Mudgal’s voice and rightly so.
Season of awards comes with anecdotes and much more
Classical music buffs are not indifferent to the announcement of awards.
A mad song of love
It’s a sunny late afternoon as we reach Kailash Kher’s residence. As we take some time to make ourselves feel comfortable, the man himself comes in hurriedly as he shakes hands with us and perches himself upon a couch.
No cure for slipped discs
While 2012 will certainly continue to witness a decline in CD sales and an upward trend for digital downloads, let us not forget that the CD is still far and away from total obsolescence. It accounted for a healthy 76 per cent market share of total album sales in the UK last year. Nevertheless, there appears to be no innovation on the horizon that will push the sales of the CD or substitute this format, unlike the Blu Ray technology that arrived as a substitute — and a superior one at that — for the DVD market.
New wave in the ocean emerges after 20 yrs
Depths of the Ocean may have only surfaced now but it has been in the making ever since Susmit Sen began his musical odyssey two decades ago, when the dream called Indian Ocean was yet to materialise.
Feelin’ the Blues
After the stellar success of its first edition, the Mahindra Blues Festival is back, and it’s bigger and better in its latest avatar. Scheduled to take place over February 11 and 12, the line-up for the fest this year includes the legendary Buddy Guy, Robert Randolph, Taj Mahal Trio, John Lee Hooker Jr and Ana Popovic — what festival director Owen Roncon calls a dream come true.
