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BY NARENDRA KUSNUR  Sharmistha Chatterjee/ Mere Saiyaan Language & genre: Punjabi, love song Label: Self-released  Rating: **** Besides her own repertoire, Mumbai-based Sharmistha Chatterjee has sung with the famed Mekaal Hasan Band. Her latest song 'Mere Saiyaan' is a pleasant Punjabi song. Sharmistha's voice is backed by the soothing acoustic guitar lines of Neil Mukherjee. The words, written by the singer herself, are, "Mere saiyaan, saiyaan saiyaan, mere saanwal, mere dholna, tenu dil diya chaahi, chhad ke na jaave mere saiyaan". Manish Gupta's black n' white official video, which uses a shorter edit, lends a retro look. The entire audio offers a more elaborate listening experience. Kavya Limaye/ Sochiye  Language & genre: Hindi, ghazal Label: Sufiscore  Rating: *** Young singer Kavya Limaye sings her father Sachin Limaye's composition 'Sochiye', written by Ajay Saahab. This was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The so...

BY NARENDRA KUSNUR The Think Floydian/ Tribute To Pink Floyd Genre : Classic rock Details : AntiSocial, Lower Parel, June 4 Rating : ***** The sun was the same in a relative way, but nobody grew older. A few minutes past midnight, as the calendar shifted from June 4 to 5, singer-guitarist Rohit Kulkarni announced that their band The Think Floydian would be playing their last piece. What few people expected was that he was referring to the entire The Dark Side Of The Moon album, presented from start to finish. Though the show had begun two and a half hours earlier, the excitement increased even further. The Delhi-based tribute band's performance at AntiSocial, Lower Parel, was a Pink Floyd fan's dream experience come true. The venue was jam-packed, some people in their early 20s even came with their parents, some of them in prism-spectrum tees. Everybody seemed to know every song by heart. From the popular 'Time' and 'Comfortably Numb' to the fan favourites ...

  BY NARENDRA KUSNUR Ilaiyaraaja/ Valiant: Symphony No 1 Genre: Western classical Performed by: Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Mikel Toms  Label: Mercuri Foundation  Rating: ***** Let's face it. The majority of Ilaiyaraaja's fans have grown up on his south Indian film music. From Annakili to Ajantha , Geethanjali to Gunaa , the favourites have been in Tamil, Telugu and at times Malayalam and Kannada. In that field, he's been king, and his Hindi work, though lesser in quantity, has been appreciated too. He's often shown influences of western classical music in his film scores, like Salil Choudhury had done a generation earlier in Hindi and Bengali music. But to write a full-fledged symphony requires a completely different approach, mental sinew and skill-set. Even for a listener, it needs a completely different mindset, understanding and taste, and it wouldn't be surprising if a large number of his fans have never heard an actual symphony before. Wi...