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About 60-odd years ago, Prabhu G Dorairaj, founder-conductor of the Lutheran Men’s Voice (LMV) began his musical journey as a treble in his church choir, the Adaikalanathar Lutheran Church located on the bustling Tana Street in Purasaiwalkam. At 24, he along with friends Premkumar Immanuel, Selvaraj and D Prabakhar went across to sing as a youth group at the Tamil Methodist Church,…
Musical history is endless. This means there’s always a song for someone, something, and sometimes. During wartime too, music prevailed in revolutionary forms. Just as poetry is intimately entwined with war (referred to as “war poetry” in literature), classical music also found its way into the commotions of war. While a portion of these classical…
If the only thing Roland ever released was the TR-808, the company would still deserve a place in the music gear hall of fame. The 808 is arguably the most important instrument since the creation of the electric guitar. It’s been a cornerstone of hip-hop, electronic, and pop music for 45 years now, used by…
Spotify has found itself the target of artists’ ire for many reasons over the years: poor audio quality, terrible payouts, giving Joe Rogan millions of dollars… the list goes on. But recently it’s been CEO and founder Daniel Ek’s extracurricular activities that have been cause for consternation. Over the past few months his funding of…
Santhosh Narayanan | Photo Credit: Thamodharan B/The Hindu Ace music composer Santhosh Narayanan on Friday (October 3) announced that he has commenced work on building “an ultra-transparent, affordable music streaming platform” that will be “built, operated and served from India.” The Kalki 2898AD composer announced the news on his X handle. Calling it his dream…
Universal Music and Warner Music, record labels whose catalogs include Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Charli XCX, are within weeks of striking licensing deals that could redefine how the music industry handles the AI era, according to the Financial Times. Talks are underway with tech heavyweights like Google and Spotify and a slew of AI…
Roland has largely decided sit out the analog synth renaissance of the last decade. But it’s (belatedly) making amends for that error with the launch of the TR-1000 Rhythm Generator. Unlike previous instruments that tried to cash in on Roland’s long legacy through digital technologies like its Zen-Core engine, Analogue Circuit Behavior (ACB) modeling, and…
Bangalore’s International Music & Arts Society’s golden jubilee celebrations have been gratifyingly numerous. Its third ‘Heritage Lecture’ by Asok Kumar Das on ‘Music, Musicians and Musical Instruments at the Mughal Court’was an appropriate subject for an institution primarily concerned with music. Asok, art historian and author, specialising in Mughal and Rajasthani art and culture,divided his talk to…
Muthuswami Dikshitar possibly embedded raga names in his compositions so that if his compositions are rendered even after centuries, they would continue to be sung in the same raga. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives A raga is the soul of Indian classical music. It carries a mood, a personality, and a journey of its…
Police say singer is cooperating with authorities in the investigation. The United States singer David Anthony Burke, known by his stage name d4vd, appears to have cancelled the remaining stops on his US and European tours amid the growing fallout from an investigation into a decomposing body of a missing teenager found in the boot…
