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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 10:31 PM | November 27,2009
Rajasthani music has been an all-time favourite for mixing, blending, appropriation, even plagiarism by musicians and composers working with film music, world music, New Age music, electronic music and what have you
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 10:14 PM | November 13,2009
I wonder why voices in the Indian film industry these days often tend to sound a bit unreal; perfect but almost like mannequins with a fixed glassy stare and a stiffness that is lifeless and unnatural
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 09:42 PM | October 30,2009
The book comes with an accompanying CD of five Kabir verses rendered in concert by Kumar Gandharva in 1980 at the home of Rajani and Shirish Patel in Mumbai
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 09:22 PM | October 16,2009
While tanpuras are made in several parts of the country, Miraj in Maharashtra and Kolkata are two places from where most musicians like to acquire tanpuras
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 09:15 PM | October 02,2009
Shubha Mudgal restarts her ‘Lounge’ column, talking about her favourite Lata Mangeshkar songs
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 12:08 AM | February 23,2008
I guess we lesser mortals had better pack up and leave for places with friendlier climes
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 12:13 AM | February 09,2008
My recent experience at a concert in the art and music loving city of Kolkata leaves me with no option but to go public
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 12:02 AM | January 26,2008
There are archives that house treasures including genuine folk music but the recordings would hardly ever be up for sale
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 12:03 AM | January 12,2008
2008 marks the centenary of an event of far-reaching impact on Indian music, the setting up of the first record factory in Kolkata in 1908
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 01:28 AM | January 05,2008
What’s more, everyone is relaxed, not posing and posturing, and quite disarmingly unselfconscious
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 11:52 PM | December 14,2007
Depicting him as a corrupt, flirtatious politician who neglects his duties as he whiles away his time in nefarious activities, the music video stars an actor with a striking resemblance to Tiwari
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 11:51 PM | November 30,2007
The credits revealed that the track was from the recently launched album Sampooran by the Mekaal Hasan Band from Pakistan
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 11:31 PM | November 16,2007
With each successive year, the jagaran is fast turning into an event with celebrity guests being brought in to attract larger crowds and bigger sponsors
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 12:20 AM | October 27,2007
So far, culture has been represented at the Summit by Bollywood biggies such as the witty King Khan of the six pack abs, and by Karan Johar
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Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal 02:48 AM | October 13,2007
Some of our news channels insist on playing the most inappropriate and incongruous music as background score for some news items
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