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Amit Trivedi - Udaan (2010)
Amit Trivedi - Aisha (2010)
The National - High Violet (2010)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehouse - Dark Night
Vishal Bhardwaj - Omkara (2006)
Monthly Top 5 albums - July 2010
I didn’t listen to lots of new albums this month. Mainly because it’s holidays; my routine has been messed up. Also, I’ve been listening to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol on audible.com and this time, I’ve even managed to sleep on the plane unlike 2 years ago. However, a few masterpieces managed to squeeze in. Here we go.
July has been Amit Trivedi month. Kudos to him for bringing new sound to bollywood. His sound is crude, rock-based. He doesn’t use Indian classical music. He barely uses orchestras apart from his theme songs, which could turn out to be a disadvantage for his moving further in the industry. But his tunes are catchy, inspiring and easy to hum. He will go far and very fast! He had two movie soundtracks released last month.
Amit Trivedi - Udaan (2010)
Amit Trivedi - Aisha (2010)
Two different movies with different themes and Amit scores high marks in both. Udaan has a light soundtrack with a recurrent combination of instruments all along. I hope it’s Cannes tag will allow it a wide distribution territory. Aisha is more of the typical bollywood with new freshness breathed in by both the cast and the music.
The National - High Violet (2010)
This album has been waiting for a while in my Spotify bookmarks. I finally gave it a try and I was really satisfied. High Violet is for those who’ve fallen for Bon Iver or Noah and the Whale. In other words, High Violet is a sad affair that has been doing really well in the charts this year.
Danger Mouse & Sparklehouse - Dark Night of The Soul (2010)
Dark Night of the Soul, the mysterious album from Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch finally got an official album this summer after an initial announcement for spring 2009. It took more than a year to come out because of a dispute between EMI Records and producer Brian Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse). The album features a wide range of singers including James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, and David Lynch. Choose the right moment (you know…that moment when life seems dim) and listen to the album. It grows really fast into you.
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Vishal Bhardwaj - Omkara (2006)
I’ve kept a spot for the genius filmmaker and music composer who i revisited again this month via Omkara. I happened to buy the DVD of the movie in Paris and we sat down to watch it again 2 days ago. Naina Thag Lenge and Jag Ja Ri Gudiya were already favourite tracks but this time I payed attention to the rest. There’s not a single composition from Vishal Bhardwaj that I’ve hated… (let’s not count The Blue Umbrella, shall we?)
- tuneage: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse feat. Suzanne Vega -… (adarsh.me)
- Motumaster!!!! yashi2612: Track from Amit Trivedi’s score for… (adarsh.me)
- First Listen: Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch For ‘Dark Night Of The Soul’ (npr.org)
- Movie Review | ‘Udaan’: A Coming-of-Age Tale From Vikramaditya Motwane (movies.nytimes.com)
- Monthly Top 5 (+2) Albums - June 2010 June edition is yet again… (adarsh.me)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Revenge (Featuring the Flaming Lips)
Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
Usual scene at the bus stop
Colorado | Grizzly Bear
GOOD NIGHT.
What a way to end Lemon House (2006) !!
Motumaster!!!!
Track from Amit Trivedi’s score for Udaan
This was love at first sound! Amit Trivedi is having a Rahman-esque start to his very promising career. It takes a lot of talent and vision to produce a new kind of sound.
The unconventional lyrics are written by none other than Anurag Kashyap! And they are brilliant!
my legacy…kind of
as a geek i tend to impose my choices upon other people. being the only one in my immediate environment who actually follows tech news, i know what’s best for your PC. really, nobody around me knows about android; the iphone still wins thanks to marketing; nobody around has figured what twitter is about. thus it was interesting to come back to Mauritius and find my home PC still running the software i was fond of 4 years back. And my lil bro is actually fond of them. he’s even installed them on my parents’ laptops.
here’s the picture: google pack, google toolbar, avast, jetaudio, spyware doctor. on my side, it’s something else now. i’ve caught the itunes bug, browser toolbars now just waste screen estate, the google pack makes no sense anymore, microsoft security essentials is pretty robust, i rarely turn on IE. i guess i’m a lifehacker addict!
on every single PC i’ve come across these days, i’ve had a tendency to do 2 things. first, run pcdecrapifier and second, replace any free protection suite with lightweight microsoft security essentials.
coming back to find computers running my old choices feels like i’ve left a legacy, a software legacy. it’s creepy. what’s even creepier is people just accept it when i change their computer settings. they know i’m doing the right thing. they trust me…
my elder bro calls me ‘cyber boy.’ recently i’ve earned another name: ‘shri satya cyber baba.’ I’d better shut up and accept it.
- Microsoft Security Essentials hard to beat (billbennett.co.nz)
- threadsy (adarsh.me)
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
J. Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher
