Songs and music review of Justin Prabhakaran and Raj Shekhar's Meenakshi Sundareshwar, with complete album credits. Spectacular Bollywood debut from the composer! j.mp/3o73VMq
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A moment I always dreamed of, but never thought would actually happen. :D All thanks to for making this a reality!
Music Aloud's interview of A R Rahman where he speaks of his current works, KMMC, 25 years in music and more. Read? bit.ly/arr-iv
Songs and music review of Arijit Singh's Pagglait, with complete musician credits. The finest composing debut in Bollywood, in a long time! bit.ly/pagglait
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Humnasheen. A memorable ghazal debut for Shreya Ghoshal. Songs and music review with full artist credits. musicaloud.com/2014/02/20/hum #plug
Recording session of the gem called Netru Illaadha Maatram from Pudhiya Mugam, featuring ARR, H Sridhar and Sujatha - from NCAA archives. Cute video this is, they seem all shy and awkward about the shooting. :D j.mp/2NdJVUv
Has tagged even the stunt choreographer who I'm pretty sure hasn't much to do with the song, but not the singer (Shilpa Rao) or lyricist (Arunraja Kamaraj). A label/director/producer doing this is still par for the course, but from a music director this is very disappointing.
Playback 2015.Music Aloud's top picks for the year from Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam & non-film categories! j.mp/top25_15 #plug
A veena-vocal duet cover. Very nice! Keep waiting for that thavil beat to drop 😃
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Exhilarated to present to you all, a cover for the ever peppy #Kadhalikkunpeninkaigagal from Kadhalan. All the more elated to collaborate with the music maestro @Rajheshvaidhya on this. Sheer joy!! youtu.be/dq8DhePDnO8
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Kannaana Kanna from Naanum Rowdy Dhaan. Sean Roldan singing for Anirudh. Lovely song! j.mp/1OhWN9T via
A bit last minute with this one, this year. :) Music Aloud Annual Roundup for 2021! Best of Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Indie/Indipop, other language films & a new list for instrumental themes this time. Playlists on Apple, Spotify & YT. Check them out?
Alright then. My favourite songs from 2017 - lists for Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Indie + Indipop and a miscellaneous set of film songs from other languages. With Youtube and Apple Music playlists in each case. Check out? bit.ly/top25_17
First review of the year. Ghibran's Maara. The composer matches up to Gopi Sunder's work in the original with a soundtrack that is a wonderful throwback to his early day compositions.
bit.ly/maara_
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This comes rather late, but had to write about Pritam's phenomenal work in Jagga Jasoos. Review of the complete OST. bit.ly/Jagga-J
Right then. Music Aloud annual roundup for 2022. My favourites of the year from Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Indie/Pop. And a small one at the end from Coke Studio season 14. Check them out? :)
A bit late watching this - excellent compilation of sarangi and dilruba solos from A R Rahman songs, with the song and musician named in each case. Amazing to see how the instruments have been employed across such diverse genres!
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WITHOUT GOOGLING
Name a famous historic battle.
Veteran composer M K Arjunan passes away. Nearly a 1000 songs in over 200 #Malayalam films+albums, a quarter of which were with lyricist Sreekumaran Thampi. Man also gave ARR his first break as keyboardist in the 80s. Plugging a favourite from Master. j.mp/34ir0S3 #RIP
Even had a phase where we would download songs in the lab computer, split the songs into 2-3 parts so they would fit into floppy disks (because those computers only had floppy drives activated), and reassemble them after taking the disks back to hostel 😂
Naina Chaar by & from Sony's Project Resound is available for free d/l here. sony.co.in/microsite/home via
Jab Harry Met Sejal. Pritam's biggest & best work yet for Imtiaz Ali. Songs and review, with complete music credits. bit.ly/j_hms
Alright,my annual roundup for 2018. Top songs(with YT & Apple playlists) from Hindi,Malayalam,Tamil,Indie/pop & a misc assortment for other language films. Plus a new category: instrumentals in film,since there were quite a few good ones this year. Read?
Going to consider musicaloud as my "job" for this purpose (since actual job has nothing that remotely qualifies as cool 😭). At the BBC studio in London a few years ago 🙂
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Drop a cool photo of you doing your job!
Performing my songs in Malaysia 
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twitter.com/mdeii/status/1…The legend Yesudas turns 78 today. No time for a new playlist so replugging an old Malayalam-Tamil-Hindi playlist of mine from when he completed 50 years of playback. Some songs have since been removed, looks like, but still long enough. :) musicaloud.com/2011/11/14/the
Music Aloud turns a teen today :D Just resharing our curator channels, in case you are yet to check them out. Thanks as always to everyone who has engaged with us all these years :)
Apple: j.mp/3bDraXI
Spotify: j.mp/2NlqGh2
YouTube:
A birthday tribute to ARR. A playlist featuring 15 singers who had their debut song with the composer. j.mp/1VGKrc1 #plug
Padmaavat. Shortest soundtrack for a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie in a long time, that is nevertheless very much identifiable with the man's usual musical style. Songs and review. bit.ly/padmaavat
Music Aloud Annual Roundup for 2020. Six lists this time - Bollywood, Malayalam, Tamil, Indie/Indipop, best of other language films and a new one for web series. Playlists are up on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Do check it out! :)
A Tamil edition of "Nostalgia" by Thaikkudam Bridge, with Cochin Strings Ensemble. Pottri Paadadi Penne + Pottu Vaitha Kaadhal Thittam + Something Something + Mouna Ragam Theme + Bombay Theme. Lovely medley. :)
Birthday no. 14 for this little side project of mine. I wanted to get all my "Currently on Loop" playlists updated in time for this, but a busy weekend happened. Hoping to still do it today or by tomorrow. Thanks, as always, for engaging with whatever I share here 🙂
Two songs from the upcoming movie Kamli.
Mukhra, which is a Baba Bulleh Shah piece set to music by Zulfiqar Ali and Saad Sultan. Atif Aslam on vocals. Beautifully soulful composition. bit.ly/385U0mC
(#jog raag, I think? #raagtag)
Shaadi Ke Side Effects. Very nicely done soundtrack by Pritam. Songs and music review. j.mp/sk_se #plug
Songs and music review of A R Rahman's "99 Songs", with complete musician credits.
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Songs and music review of the #Bengali web series soundtrack Tansener Tanpura, with complete musician credits. bit.ly/tan-sen
Composer: Joy Sarkar
Lyricist: Srijato
Have seen brass bands play film songs, but never alongside a chendamelam. This is brilliant!
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Some songs are evergreen and will make you groove to it even if you ve heard it a 1000 times 
... A really interesting version of #MuqqalaMuqabala with #Chenda melam and #Brass .. sure @arrahman sir would be happy to see it !!
#Chenda #kerala #nativeinstrument
... A really interesting version of #MuqqalaMuqabala with #Chenda melam and #Brass .. sure @arrahman sir would be happy to see it !!
#Chenda #kerala #nativeinstrument
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A musical film whose complete OST never got an official release through a music label 🤦♂️
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Hi, made new #malayalam playlist on #AppleMusic. Some of my favourite songs by composer Vidyasagar. :) Listen off?
I will never understand why albums like No One Killed Jessica, Aamir, Delhi Belly etc are not officially present on any streaming platform. It is like labels have an aversion to brilliant offbeat music.
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Hi2all. Made a #Bengali playlist for the first time. :) Top songs of one of my fav contemporary Bengali composers, Indraadip Dasgupta. Features some lovely melodies. Check it out?
Apple (missing 3 songs): bit.ly/ma-sl-id
YT (missing 3 other songs): bit.ly/ma-sl-id-yt
Songs and review of the brilliant Gully Boy soundtrack, with complete musician credits. bit.ly/gully_boy #hindi
Shreya Ghoshal and the Berklee Indian Ensemble cover D Imman and Yugabharathi's Sundari Pennae (originally sung by Shreya herself), from the movie Oru Oorla Rendu Raja. Nicely done! bit.ly/3xBYRof
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It's been a night of revisits - currently on this absolute gem of a Raasathi cover by Job Kurian & a bunch of incredible musicians (Josy Alappuzha,Prakash Hariharan,Yakzan,Santosh Chandran all favs). Doubt I'll ever love an ARR song tribute more than this. j.mp/1kVcKTV
Trailer of Atrangi Re. A R Rahman and Irshad Kamil. :) That Shreya Ghoshal song sounds very promising!
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@MusicAloud my manifestation worked haha
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Next song from Manmarziyaan. Grey wala shade. NOW we are talking! What a beauty from Amit T, Shellee and Harshdeep Kaur and Jazim Sharma (who sounds a bit like RFAK, but in a non-boring way)! youtu.be/adWCk6jhJ-s
A R Rahman-Irshad Kamil-Imtiaz Ali team make it three winners in a row with Tamasha! Review. j.mp/tama5h #plug
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Amazing concert by the Ayoub Sisters last night. Great mix of originals & covers of folk, classical & pop songs, but the biggest surprise for me was a Celtic-influenced cover of Nagada Sang Dhol from Ram-Leela!😃 Some more video snippets from the gig here: instagram.com/p/CrVQbXutmNh/
New single by Salim Sulaiman, Muraliya, sung by Shreya Ghoshal and written by Shradha Pandit (the singer, I presume). Nicely done classical-electronic fusion. Shreya's singing and Paras Nath's flute in particular - so good. j.mp/37g9sYK
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Songs and music review of the wonderful Dil Bechara, with complete musician credits.
bit.ly/dil_bechara
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Atrangi Re. A R Rahman delivers another winner with Irshad Kamil! Songs and music review, with complete album credits.
bit.ly/4trngi
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Songs and music review of Vellai Yaanai, with complete musician credits.
Music: Santhosh Narayanan
Lyrics: Raju Murugan, Uma Devi, Anthony Daasan, Arivu
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A medley of #ARR's #charukesi songs by Sanskruti. Lovely! Singing pWnage by & ! youtube.com/watch?v=xhWcMH #raagtag
Excellent thread celebrating 28 years of ARR. Happy to have contributed some trivia to this :)
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It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that August 15, 1992 changed Indian cinema forever.
This was the day when Mani Ratnam’s Roja was released. More importantly, this marked the debut of the musical storm -- Isai Puyal -- from Madras @arrahman (A 
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Reposting an old tribute post on the occasion of A R Rahman's birthday. A set of 15 songs by singers who made their playback debut with ARR. Replicated the playlist on Apple as well now (one short, since Sillunu Oru Kaadhal isn't on the platform). j.mp/1VGKrc1
Bajirao Mastani. Best soundtrack that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has delivered as a composer! Songs and review. j.mp/B4jM4s #plug
Good time to revisit the soundtrack. Exceptional stuff from Amit Trivedi, Kausar Munir and Habib Faisal. bit.ly/39aMlUf
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Habib Faisal's #Ishaqzaade turns 10 today.
Marked the debut of @arjunk26.
@ParineetiChopra @GAUAHAR_KHAN @AKRastogi #ShashankKhaitan
@yrf @ItsAmitTrivedi @KausarMunir @aarti1009 @Shanoozeing
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Berklee Indian Ensemble covers Remember Shakti's 5 Peace Band, featuring Shankar M on vocals. Their best cover yet. j.mp/2trO0M5
It's the birthday of one of my favouritest composers - Vidyasagar. Reposting a #malayalam playlist of his top songs I made a while back:
Apple: j.mp/2x6CAzf
Spotify: bit.ly/2CfIKDM
YouTube:
Song 1 from Laal Singh Chaddha, Kahaani. That dreamy Barfi-esque sound - have missed this from Pritam! :) Written by Amitabh Bhattacharya and sung by Mohan Kannan. This one is going to be on loop for a while. bit.ly/39pyjhx
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Song 2. "Main Ki Karaan?" Lovely melodic track once again. :) Sonu Nigam and Romy. Sort of the "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" of this movie I guess. bit.ly/3M7oRh3
#LaalSinghChaddha #hindi
Hawaizaada. Another multi-composer soundtrack for Ayushmann Khurrana, and the best so far! Songs and Review. j.mp/HAWAI #replug
Songs and music review of Love Aaj Kal, with complete musician credits.
Composer: Pritam
Lyricist: Irshad Kamil
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Beautiful beautiful cover of ARR's Uyirum Neeye by Masala Coffee.Esraj replaces violin. j.mp/1924ore via #kamas #raagtag
Music Aloud turns 10 today. :) Wanted to a playlist or something, but couldn't find the time. Feels fitting to be reposting a review in fact, since that remains the primary purpose of this site. Quite happy with whatever we have managed to do in these ten years +
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Songs and review (with complete musician credits) of Hrishikesh-Saurabh-Jasraj and Vaibhav Joshi's spectacular soundtrack for Anandi Gopal - easily the composers' best work to date. bit.ly/a-gopal #marathi
59th birthday of the legend Chithra. 30 Years since the release of Roja soundtrack. Good day to replug an updated version of this old ARR-Chithra playlist of mine. :)
Apple: apple.co/3JchvYY
YT (longest of the lot): bit.ly/3viZcvN
Spotify:
Lovely cover of Dil Chahta Hai by the Berklee Indian Ensemble, featuring 112 artists from 21 countries, with Shankar Mahadevan in the lead. And a brilliantly edited video as well. Wish it had also featured Ehsaan, Loy and Javed Akhtar, though.
A bit too last minute on this, this time. But if you are not doing much this NYE, please to be checking out my annual music roundup :) Best songs of 2019, with playlists, from Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Indian Indie/pop and one covering other language films. j.mp/top25_2019
Here you go then. The complete YT playlist of yday's #AroundtheWorldin80Songs. Instruments from around the world. j.mp/11tPkM7
Angana Morey. New single composed, sung and written by Shreya Ghoshal, and produced by her brother Soumyadeep Ghoshal. Most enjoyable classical-electronic fusion. Big fan of #bhimplasi-based melodies :) j.mp/3cDYwbA
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Coke Studio pays tribute to Mehdi Hasan.Ranjish Hi Sahi.So well sung by Ali Sethi.:) j.mp/2hRqUfL #yaman #raagtag via
Doing another repost of this since ARR and song covers are the key discussion topics on the TL.
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It's been a night of revisits - currently on this absolute gem of a Raasathi cover by Job Kurian & a bunch of incredible musicians (Josy Alappuzha,Prakash Hariharan,Yakzan,Santosh Chandran all favs). Doubt I'll ever love an ARR song tribute more than this. j.mp/1kVcKTV
Songs and music review of A R Rahman and Amitabh Bhattacharya's Mimi, with complete musician credits.
bit.ly/m1m111
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Medley of ARR's Adiye and Santhosh Narayanan's Maya Nadhi by Anne Amie, with Sumesh Parameswar handling the guitars and arrangement. Nicely done. j.mp/2ymMmyV #tamil
Have spent a large part of my non working hours in the past 3 months or so, working on this. Hope you like it (if not, please be kind :D )!
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Starting August 1, music expert @vip_nair will be curating a list of the #Top100BollywoodAlbums since the 1940s. Watch this space for more!
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A complete soundtrack release before the movie's release - something of a rarity in Bollywood these days. Thanks to ARR for not delaying this one even further. 99 Songs (14 songs, actually): j.mp/2vAvRRG (apple)
j.mp/2U6oE5x (gaana)
Kaaviya Thalaivan.1 of the year's most awaited soundtracks,& ARR delivers in style.And some top class singing.Review j.mp/KayteE
Director Siddique speaking about ARR. TIL that he did the complete arrangement for Kalikkalam from Ramji Rao Speaking (and that was a brilliantly arranged song for its time). #malayalam
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Music Aloud turns 9 today. Created one "On Sound Cloud 9" entry after a long gap, to celebrate. :) bit.ly/ma-bday9
Haricharan's new fusion band GrooViDa, presenting a "neo-Carnatic" rendition of Thyagaraja's Maravairi Ramani.Never heard a #NasikaBhooshani song in a fusion setting before.Very nicely done. My fav bits: Aalap Raju's bass,and of course the singing
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The day was understandably spent revisiting Lata Mangeshkar favourites, so put them all into a Spotify playlist. No particular order or theme, just songs that kept coming to mind as I went down that rabbit hole. All Hindi, bar her only Malayalam song.
Another tribute playlist(wish these didn't have to be made so often of late :( ). My favourite songs by KK,mostly Hindi,but also Tamil & a bit of Telugu. What an incredibly versatile singer.
Spotify spoti.fi/3M78hNB
Apple apple.co/3x6WRp5
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Shreya Ghoshal and Pentatonix!
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You manifested this to happen PTX x Shreya collab on your way
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PTX x Shreya collab on your way twitter.com/PTXofficial/st…Song 1 from Iravin Nizhal - Maayavaa Thooyavaa. Lovely retro-style melodic piece from A R Rahman, Shreya Ghoshal and Madhan Karky. :) youtu.be/yXq5xbmIKec
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#np 45 Ragas by Jayanthi Kumaresh. A beautiful 113 minute long rendition where she explores 45 different ragas on her Saraswathi Veena. Available on OK Listen: j.mp/2D0keBi (good to see they have started featuring classical albums now). List of ragas in the image.
Sarvam Thaala Mayam. A R Rahman and Rajiv Menon's long-awaited reunion produces yet another supremely engaging soundtrack. Songs and review. bit.ly/s_t_m_ #tamil
Musicaloud turns 11 today. No bday post, because I completely forgot 🙈 (thanks a ton to @NagaValley for reminding). Reposting my playlist thread instead. Hoping to add to this more frequently this year. Thanks to everyone who continues to support us! :)
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Hi, made new #malayalam playlist on #AppleMusic. Some of my favourite songs by composer Vidyasagar. :) Listen off? j.mp/2x6CAzf
This thread😍
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My Amma turns 80 in a few months.A dedicated Carnatic music listener, a student and enthusiast.I am embroidering a crossword grid with names of 36 Carnatic ragas for her.Raga 1-Abhogi.
One of the finest and prettiest actresses of her time, really.
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Born #OnThisDay
Talented actress known for her Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films: SRIVIDYA
#ApoorvaRagangal 1975
