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Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Cheers to the Breath and Sudarshan Kriya


One fine morning, I woke up at Anjana’s house with a song in my head. I took a deep breath in and a couple of hours later, the song took birth. It came out in rap (or 'rapchick') style. I asked one of the best song-maker I knew, to set it to music and sing it (lyrics are below). Click That thing you do with your nose to listen to the song and please write to the classy Daniel Moss and tell him how you liked it.







That thing you do with your nose


Breathe Breathe Breathe away
To the rhythm of your soul
The solution to your woes
Flows right under your nose.

So get ready with you bows
And your red rose arrows
Love truly flows and grows
When you dissolve big fat egos.

Deal with life's highs and lows
Vanquish all your silly foes
Drown the rest of your sorrows
If only, You do that thing with your nose!

Love even they who oppose
That's the best of all mottos
He reaps as he sows
Says the wise one who knows.

Breathe Breathe Breathe away
To the rhythm of your soul
Its easier that licking your elbows
That thing you do with your nose.

The birds, the bees and all of those
Do their naughty things with close windows
And even when they doze
They still do that thing with their nose.

Very little poetry and some prose
Has been composed on blowing your nose
Yet the best pleasure nature bestows
Flows right under your nose.

You can dig into those cheesy tacos or sinful chocos
And yet shed those extra kilos,
If the discipline you impose
Gets you to do that thing with your nose.

When come calling the head honchos
Your paycheck can add extra zeroes
If in between the his and hellos
You disclose
You do that thing with your nose

Those that smartly used their nose,
The world labeled them weirdoes or psychos
Before long their glory arose
As they joined the march of the heroes

Whether you dwell in borrows or chateaus
Anyone from Librans to Virgos
Breathe in the fragrance of the rose
And do that thing with your nose.

So kick in to some new clothes
Plus add some attitude that shows
That nothing can shake those
Who do that thing with their nose.

Breathe in in let go go go…
Breathe in in let go go go…
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I am the Libran and Bawa is the Virgo...
Goes without saying, I am inspired by all your comments;-)  

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Andrew LLoyd Webber

His music is almost uniformly fantastic!
One of the only composers of our times who effortlessly manages to combine various music types in one single play with gusto and elan... He has managed to come up with some of the most endearing music i have ever listened to and would sincerely recomend everyone to hear it and fall in love with it like i have :)

Here is a list of his musicals which have done brilliantly on broadway (in New York) and westend (London)

1. Joesph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat (very old one, is now on a revival and playing right now in London... one of the best reasons to go there!)
2. Starlight Express (i have seen this one live atleast 4 times :), its about a train that gets enlightened :)!! )
3. Evita (yup, scored by ALW, the very famous Dont cry for me Argentina is from this musical)
4. The Phantom of the Opera (still running in London, perhaps the longest running musical in know of, running since 1986!!)
5. Sunset Boulevard (very depressing with some really brilliant music)
6. Jesus Christ Superstar (a rock opera, depicting the last few days of Jesus's life as seen thru the eyes of Judas... fantastic, but can leave you quite shaken)
7. Cats (Terrific show, classy music Super hit song Memory is from this one)

8. By Jeeves ( A musical based on the characters of P.G. Wodehouse... i couldnt stop laughing... top notch music, somehow didnt do too well on the box office to my eternal wonder... if it ever comes on DVD grab it!)

Love changes everything is a beautiful song from Aspects of Love (didnt quite like any of the other music in that one)

He has written a few more, some of which i personally didnt like too much... There are some great DVDs and CDs which are available of his shows and music and make really great entertainment value...

Michael Crawford, Joesph Donovan and Sarah Brightman do super justice to ALW's music... though i have even heard Antonio Banderas sing ALW's music brilliantly! :)

The other musicals i have throughly enjoyed... i will leave that for another post... another day! :)

 

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Monday, March 3, 2008

Western Classics - I

A lot of people have done the western classical music workshop with me and have been sending me requests for a list of "easy" music to listen to... well here it is, in no particular order...

Beethoven:
6th Symphony 1st, 2nd and last movements in particular
5th Symphony 1st movement
7th and 8th Symphonys
9th Symphony last movement (the choral)

5th Piano Concerto

Piano Sonatas:
1. Pathetique
2. Moonlight
3. Tempest

the other piano and violin sonatas are very beautiful too... pick them up at leisure and listen to them...

Mozart:

Piano Concertos no. 19, 20 , 21 (elvira madigan)
Symphony nos 39, 40, 41

Magic Flute (could wit a bit before hearing this... can be quite over the top in some places, but has some really lovely arias)

Sonatas for piano in C (Beginner), A (with the rondo alla turca)

Eine Kline Nacthmusik (A little Night Music)
Serenade for Strings

almost anything written by mozart is very pretty... feel very safe to pick up something by him :)

Chopin:

Nocturnes nos. 1,2,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,15,17,18,20
Etude Revolutionary
Heroic Polonaise
Military Polonaise
Piano Concerto no. 2
Ballade no. 1 in G minor
Minute Waltz
Grande Valse Brilliante
Fantasie Improntu
Funeral March from the Piano Sonata no. 2
Black Key Etude

Liszt:

Hungarian Rhapsodys nos. 2,4,5,9,10,12,14,15,19 (the others are also great but these are easy to listen to)
The Transcriptions for Piano of Beethovens Symphonies nos 5 and 6
Liebestraume no. 3

his transcriptions of various songs of mendelsohn and rossini are very nice too, but fairly difficult to get hold of on CD

Johann Strauss:

On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz
The Emperor Waltz
Accelerations Waltz
Radetzsky March
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Voices of Spring
Roses from the South

almost anything written by the strauss brothers is easy to listen to, they were like the rock stars of their times :)

Peter Tchaikovsky:


Swan Lake
Overture to 1812
Marche Slav
Piano Concerto no. 2
Serenade for Strings
Symphony no. 6 (The Pathetique)

Other Stuff:

The Guitar Concerto d' Aranjuez
Carmen by Bizet
Marche Militaire by Schubert
Italian Polka by Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto in A minor by Grieg

I think i will end here and not overwhelm you guys... will keep adding more when i find something nice for you guys to listen to...

Jai Gurudeva !
love
bawa

 

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