Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Got a better song than this?


"Summer 68" by "Pink Floyd"
Album "Atom Heart Mother"


"Would you like to say something before you leave 
Perhaps you'd care to state exactly how you feel 
We said good-bye before we said hello 
I hardly even like you, I shouldn't care at all 
We met just six hours ago, the music was too loud 
From your bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year 
And I would like to know 
How do you feel, how do you feel, how do you feel? 

Not a single word was said, delights still without fears 
Occasionally you showed a smile but what was the need 
I felt the cold far too soon - the wind of '95 
My friends are lying in the sun, I wish that I was there 
Tomorrow brings another town and another girl like you 
Have you time before you leave to greet another man 
Just you let me know 
How do you feel, how do you feel, how do you feel? 

Good-bye to you 
Charlotte Kringles too 
I've had enough for one day" 


PS: How we are surrounded by moments discussed above. 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Words and Notes (Some musical experiences)

Music is a tool, you won't learn without practice and prior knowledge. I often come across questions by friends, when I just pick up an instrument and start playing without any prior knowledge, to whom I reply, all one needs is to play music first in mind and then it jot down on his instrument, whatever he is playing. Music for me is unarguably a mental performance rather than physical.
I remember when I was judged by my Violin guru, Shri G N Kapoor, who before taking me as his student asked me to tune up a Taanpura, which I did tuned to fairly decent perfection only coz of the Vocal teachings I had in music. For me it was replication of what I was thinking in mind.
I would advise people who read this and are related to music to stop playing instruments by reading notes.
I also want you to know that 'Indian Music', though tethered in its present form, is an awesome experience. There is no restriction for you to create your own stuff out of it, say, Shankar.E.L are doing phenomenal in their music compositions, hardly people know about their Classical-Music base. Other master is John McLaughlin, who has done a lot in popularizing Indian Classical-Music across the globe. India is own such country which has given a lot of Culture to Humanity, its ours (your and mine) duty to carry it with ourselves, not to dump it or let it being dumped.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Let the music play


These are some of the best musical pieces I've heard till now,
Surely could've included more. But there is always something known as "Top Ten".


1.Carry you home -James Blunt
2.Brothers in Arms -Dire Straits
3.Life in Technicolor -Coldplay
4.East Side Story -Bryan Adams
5.Take me Home, Country roads -John Denver
6.Coming back to life -Pink Floyd
7.Another Day in paradise -Phil Collins
8.I still havent found -U2
9.Still Loving you -Scorpions
10.A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics -James Horner

PS: Any suggestions?