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After a long wait, Manmohan Waris’s new album is finally here. The album’s title is “Dil Te Na Laeen“. Here I present the first song from this album, “Mehsoos Ho Riha E”. The words of this song are by a wonderful new (relatively) writer Sukhpal Aujla, he also wrote Kamal Heer’s Chete Kareen. This video was shot in Rajsthan on 16mm film by Sandeep Sharma. The album is available here.
Here is the Nashedi Dil Video from Kamal Heer’s Jinday Ni Jinday Album. The video director is Bhupi, I wrote the lyrics and the music. I am also including the lyrics below this post. Enjoy:
Here is Kamal Heer’s “Ik Boli Pa de” video.
The lyrics of this song are by Anil Fatehgarh Jattan.
This video was shot on 16mm film. The choreography is by Bhupi Syan.
Here I present the first song from Kamal Heer’s new album Jinday Ni Jinday. This song has amazing flow in the lyrics. Hopefully the music has done justice with the great vocals and Words. This is the number two song on the album.
This song was shot in and around Vancouver, Canada. If you live in the area you can probably recognize a few landmarks.
After so many overnight requests, I am posting the lyrics of Jinday song. Please note that the video is missing one verse. To keep the video fit into the TV slots, many times we have to cut the music and words. Here is the complete song as it appears in the album enjoy.
I though I should share some of behind the curtain information and my thoughts about this album with my blog readers, who mostly tend to be musicians. My first and foremost wish is that you would like it.
I wrote two of the 8 lyrics. The title song is by Jasbir Gunachairia. The other lyricists are Sukhpal Aujla, Anil Ftehgarh Jattan, Charan Likhari, Preet Khetla and Ninder Sherkhan.
The bulk of the music for this album was recorded in Bombay at the Windlass Studios (engineers Bhanu Thakur & Tane). I would also like to mention a few musicians who have contributed to this album. The Great dhol player and our dear friend Ramzan Khavra (Ramju) played the dhol, dholak and various other percussions. A few songs have four dhols playing together. For these songs his own two sons Sajjid Khavra and Ahmed Khavra, his son-in-law and student Bashir Sheikh and his nephew Abdul Khavra accompanied him. the Famous film rhythm programmer Bharat Ghosher programmed some of the rhythm. The other players are as listed below:
Ustad Tari Khan, Ramzan Khavra, Atul Raninga, Raju Shankar, Sandeep Saxena, Sanjeev Sain, Sharafat Hussain, Naveen Sharma, Raju Sardar and Iqbal Azad.
Jugal Kishore, Pardeep Thakur, Jude Alexander, Sanju Verma, S. Jawda, Mohan Goyal, Neeraj Rath, Parbhat-Jugal Kishore.
Rashid Khan, Jatinder Thakur, Madhukant Dhumal, Dilshad Khan, Gaja, Pardeep Barot.
I also played Mandolin, Guitar, Keyboards, some Flute and Toombi.
The best thing about this album for me has to be the last song, which doesn’t even have my music at all. It was recorded live at Fiasco Bros Studio (Vancouver, Canada) just a month or so ago when the Tabla Virtuoso Ustad Tari Khan was in town. It’s a composition in 7/4, although not in Rupak but in a very Punjabi, folk taal called Dhaia (meaning 2.5). I will do another post about it later.
Although the Bombay studio recorded into Pro Tools, I work in Cubase. We have both programs along with a few others in our studio. So once I brought the raw recordings back to Los Angeles, I converted them to Cubase project files and finished them in Cubase 5. The album was also mixed in Cubase 5 by Michelle Garuik.
Working on a music album is a hard and long process (or it ought to be). It is a joint effort of many people. I am very thankful to all those who have helped me in the process and I am looking forward to see if you would find that our efforts have paid off. I hope this album will entertain millions and bring joy to even many more hearts. Enjoy.
I just came back after a month in Mumbai, recording elements for Manmohan Waris and Kamal Heer’s new albums. Now back in Los Angeles, I am finishing Kamal Heer’s album first. It is scheduled to be released in September. Here are a few pictures from Mumbai sessions.
Sangtar in Windlass Studio
Ahmed Khavra, Ramzan Khavra (Ramju), Abdul Khavra and Bashir Sheikh
A couple of weeks ago Plasma Records released Kamal Heer’s new album “Chan Jiha Gabhru”. I prepared the music for this album. It is a full on music heavy album. Still, Kamal Heer’s master voice comes through beautifully. The following is the second video from this album. The song’s title is Mar Gaye Majajne. I also wrote the lyrics for this song. I hope you will enjoy it.
