Something like the Sitar, the Bansuri and the Sarangi has a rich history and legacy of being used in Indian scores... What other Indian Classical Instruments you think remain relatively unexplored as of today?
So , I don't know how everything works out here , all It did for me to join was the name of the community itself and thoda sa selfish motive ( hehe ) . So I kinda had a recent release , worked on it all by myself, although still figuring out kaise logo Tak pohochaun?. So , not to impose anything on anyone but It would definitely bring me a big ass smile knowing that someone (who I don't know) gave it a listen ! Dil khuch ho jayga yaar ! https://open.spotify.com/track/70BlgtuDpGkD05zXzIYGA3?si=655d548418474c36
Any ghazal fans
My playlist is full of
Mehdi hassan
Bade ghulam ali
Chote ghulam ali
Anyone who has same music taste here
Or I’m too old school for this generation??
Hey! So this is the only song ive made, and this is the kind of beat im looking for, along the same lines, if you feel like you have something like this in the vault then hit me up
I'm a music nerd, and lately I've been trying to expand my listening well beyond Bollywood, because there's so much incredible music out there from other countries that most of us never really get exposed to. I grew up on Bollywood music, my whole family did, and it's still a family thing now, we jam together at home, my kids play instruments, and someone's always humming a Hindi film tune. But going out and actually exploring music from elsewhere has become its own habit.
What keeps happening, though, is that I stumble onto a connection back to Bollywood almost by accident, a rhythm, a scale, an instrument, and that pulls me in further. I start digging into the genre or the tradition behind whatever I just heard, and what gets me every time is how much work sits underneath it, years, decades, sometimes centuries of actual trial and error, an entire culture slowly working out what a rhythm or a vocal style should even sound like. That process is what I find genuinely fascinating. It's made me notice something about Bollywood too, almost as a side note:
>these traditions spent all that time slowly working out a sound through real trial and error, while Bollywood, more often than not, just reached for something already proven, a hit that had already worked somewhere else in the world.
So this is going to be an ongoing diary of what turns up as I keep exploring. Here's what I've found so far.
Finding one: La Maritza and R.D. Burman's "Tu Tu Hai Wahi"
I was listening to "La Maritza," a 1968 French song by Sylvie Vartan,https://youtu.be/iibyWyFGWUE?si=s5oKvxs3klFlvgQL, and it hit me: this is the same architecture as R.D. Burman's "Tu Tu Hai Wahi" from Yeh Vaada Raha (1982), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agBokRAQggs. "La Maritza" is written in D minor, a key that carries a soft, aching sadness, but it actually speeds up near the end, the tempo genuinely accelerates as the song closes. That combination, a minor-key ache paired with a rhythm that keeps pushing forward, is a real signature of French chanson from that era. It's a very different emotional engineering trick than, say, American ballads of the same era, which tend to slow down to match sad lyrics.https://youtu.be/iibyWyFGWUE?si=9Mq4GFKUaDSdeFQL
>French chanson often does the opposite, keeps the body moving while the melody aches.
Burman pulled from continental European pop constantly, not just the American and British sources people usually point to, and "Tu Tu Hai Wahi" keeps that same aching minor-key core while pushing the pace even further than the original.
Finding two: Ladaniva, Trio Mandili, and the sounds Bollywood borrowed
This week I've been listening to Ladaniva, a French-Armenian group, especially "Saraiman," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGbp88ziXU, and "Pourquoi t'as fait ça," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uJSIc0vjU.
>There's a playful, folky energy in their music, full of "hurr" vocal ad-libs and a bouncy rhythm, and it kept reminding me of O.P. Nayyar's "Maang Ke Saath Tumhara."
Ladaniva draws heavily on Balkan music alongside Armenian folk, and that's probably not a coincidence. Balkan and Eastern European folk dance rhythms carry the same galloping, clip-clop bounce the tonga beat rides on, and it's Bollywood that borrowed from that tradition, not the other way around, India never really had a genre of its own built around that particular bounce.
I found the same pull toward Bollywood in Trio Mandili, a Georgian folk trio, through "Ai Dunia," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQr_VY5ObdY, and "Kakhuri," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK9KOfknTw.
>My wife walked in while I had both Ladaniva and Trio Mandili playing back to back, and without any prompting from me, she said it sounded like it had a Bollywood vibe.
I'll take that as confirmation I'm not just imagining all this 😊
Finding three: a Flemish blacksmith's song, and my wife's "it's Raj Kapoor" verdict
Then I played her Trio Mandili's version of "'t Smidje," https://youtu.be/GWVArZ5oiB0, a traditional Flemish folk song popularized by the Belgian group Laïs, about a blacksmith who's been aged prematurely by his own hard labor.
>The moment it came on, she said, "it's Raj Kapoor," same musical style.
She's right. It's the same sweeping, aching, string-led sadness that runs through "Waves of the Danube," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxvW8Z9-7Kg, the waltz Raj Kapoor kept returning to across Barsaat, Awaara, and Bobby. Different country, different language, same emotional engineering, and it took an untrained ear catching it in passing to notice it, not mine.
More entries to come as I keep exploring. If you've caught a connection like this yourself, I'd love to hear it 👇
Yea...its like it never happens or veryy rare...we have greatttt artists here...great versatility...diverse musics...from classical to pop...and the fusion between music genres are top notch! But i always felt like we are not recognized globally for that😭 if at all such recognition happens ...maybe indian hate will kinda reduce and people start to appreciate our culture and entirely every awesome things about our country more eventually...??
HELLO Indieheads! Last I promoted my single Soi Hi Nahi here and today I’m here to say that my debut album is out!! It is a MIX of MANY DIFFERENT SOUNDS so please give it a try and let me know what your favorite track is. I have out my heart, soul, and all my limited resources into this and cannot wait for you to hear it ♥️
I also have it on YT and will put that link in the comments but unfortunately distro put the entire album on the wrong Rasa’s profile so please dont subscribe to that. I have provided the correct subscribe link in that comment as well 😭
So... this Lollapalooza India artwork randomly landed in my DMs today.
Whoever sent it claims it's been circulating in a few private circles and is allegedly an early concept for next year's festival, featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers and Empire of the Sun along with the festival dates.
No clue if it's genuine or just an incredibly convincing fan-made design, but the artwork looks surprisingly polished.