My Cousin’s Original Composition- III

This is the final and the best product of his holiday. A tribute to victims of recent Mumbai attacks.

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My Cousin’s Original Composition – II

This is the second composition of Prashanth.  Since his exams are over already, he is composing tunes in full swing

This one is a beautiful solo violin piece played on keyboard. A romantic sad number which will fit perfectly as background score in movie according to me. Tell me what do you think -

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My Cousin’s Original Composition- I

My cousin prashanth had been going to keyboard classes for about 6 years. He is now going to classes of  Hindustani classical singing. He has composed and sung a song in an album produced by his school of music and also as a part of chorus in the background score of a kannada movie “Ninagaagi kaadiruve ”

Remember, he has done all these while being a topper in the first year of  computer science engineering in RVCE 

He upgraded his keyboard for the third time recently to Korg TR. I would like to share a fusion music track which he has composed himself. It’s based on raag Bhoopali.  No editing/mixing has been done. It was recorded on digi cam and sound was extracted by it.

Listen to it -

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Your views on this is welcome. I will convey them to him.

Listening to OST’s

That’s the new habit which is growing gradually on me now a days.

I couldn’t  stop myself writing this after watching Wes anderson’s Rushmore. Oh boy, that’s what you call an OST. Even his other movie I have seen, The darjeeling limited had some wonderful sound tracks taken from Satyajeet ray’s movies.

Coming to main point now, in Indian cinema, the background score was not treated as important feature till recently. Its getting its due only from few years.

Maestro Ilaiyaraaja was master at giving mind blowing background score. But it was rahman’s scores which made even the OST’s a popular thing with bombay theme and some others.

For me, it started with the movie Hotel rwanda. It had some amazing african chanting by kids that stayed even after the movie was finished. I tried to find it online but invain. Then came Giuseppe tornatore’s Italian classic Cinema paradiso with the music by lengendary composer  Ennio morricone (remember the theme of  The good,the bad and the ugly ?). The beautiful movie was taken to the next level by the music given by him. Since the OST was very famous, I got hold of it very easily.

This is a video of Ennio morricone performing the theme of Cinema pardiso in a concert-

One of the other brilliant OST that blew me away was from Stanley kubrick’s 2001: A space odyssey. It has unarguably one of the best theme music ever. He has mostly used existing music rather than creating separately for the movie (extensive use of  classical music ). All of his movies consists of extremely intriguing musical pieces .

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That made me dig more deep into several other OST’s . I found a collection of OST’s from various movies, listening to them is really a different kind of experience. Then I found Quentin tarantino’s movies like Reservoir dogs, Kill bill Vol 1, Vol 2, Pulp fiction. They all boast some kick-ass soundtracks.

I wish that we  could see more OST’s releasing from Indian cinema in the similar lines of  Rahman’s The Fire, Monty sharma’s Black , Indian ocean’s Black friday and even Raincoat.

And since Rahman has already made it big with winning prestigious Golden globe nomination for original music for the must- watch movie  Slumdog millionare , I  wish him ALL THE BEST. Waiting for the good news on Jan 11