PIYA RE

About the Artist
Indian born singer/music director, Rupam Sarmah presents an exuberant and gorgeously captivating collection of 'Hindi' songs in 'PIYA RE'.

Rupam’s musical heritage from his native Assam (India) and experience from western parts of the world, gives his artistic presentation an exciting ‘fusion’ with East, West and Folk melodies. The result is an engaging recording that takes the listeners through some new musical landscapes.

“Futuristic Composition, music so thoroughly different that it sounds like yesterday and tomorrow - bridging the gaps between musical generations ...”

Product Description
'Piya Re' - Hindi Songs "A Great Sense of Love and Music"

PIYA RE,Rupam Sarmah,RJ Productions,Indian born singer and music director, presents a collection of 'Hindi' songs - an artistic blend of East, West and passionate style of Folk Melodies.

Average customer rating: Warning: this CD is addictive Clever, but.... Bhosle, Pavrotti, Sinatra Cheap music I Think They Should Have Selected a More Contemporary Singer

You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman's Bollywood Kronos Quartet , and Asha Bhosle Manufacturer: Nonesuch Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Best of Asha Bhosle: The Golden Voice of Bollywood Rise Dimanche a Bamako Kiran Ahluwalia ASIN: B0009X1PAM Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

1. Dum Maro Dum - Take Another Toke
2. Rishte Bante Hain - Relationships Grow Slowly
3. Mehbooba Mehbooba - Beloved, O Beloved
4. Ekta Deshlai Kathi Jwalao - Light a Match
5. Nodir Pare Utthchhe Dhnoa - Smoke Rises across the River
6. Koi Aaya Aane Bhi De - If People Come
7. Mera Kuchh Saaman - Some of My Things
8. Saajan Kahan Jaoongi Main - Beloved, Where Would I Go?
9. Piya Tu Ab To Aaja - Lover, Come to Me Now
10. Dhanno Ki Aankhon - In Dhanno's Eyes
11. Chura Liya Hai Tum Ne - You've Stolen My Heart
12. Saiyan Re Saiyan - My Lover Came Silently

Amazon.com

The Kronos Quartet have been luminaries of modern Western classical music for more than thirty years. So despite their previous forays into world music, a headlong dive into the alternative universe of Bollywood (Bombay-plus-Hollywood) soundtracks may seem somewhat incongruous. But Kronos leader David Harrington is a longtime fan of composer R.D. Burman¹s florid pop extravaganzas, which propelled an already saturated palette into day-glo and beyond. To get the project off the ground, he had to convince one of India¹s prolific and versatile "playback" singers to come on board. The legendary Asha Bhosle is a renowned Burman interpreter so securing her services was a major coup. To replicate the reverb-laden "wall of sound" typical of Burman arrangements, Kronos and Ashaji, accompanied by Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain and Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, overdubbed themselves into a teeming multitude. However, there is nothing soulless or "canned" about the results; indeed, composer and singer emerge refreshed and more vivid than ever before, shaking their stuff amid swirling Technicolor veils of tongue-in-cheek mystery and sensuality. --Christina Roden

Album Description

Sumptuous and surreal, the Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle's You've Stolen My Heart is not unlike the colorful, melodramatic Indian film musicals to which it pays tribute. Eight of its twelve tracks feature superstar Bollywood film playback singer Asha Bhosle, widely considered the world's most recorded vocalist. The songs were chosen from the repertoire of her husband, the late composer R.D. Burman, who revolutionized the sound of the movies produced at Mumbai's (formerly Bombay) fabled studios, a.k.a. Bollywood.

Customer Reviews:

Warning: this CD is addictive.......2007-01-12

Now in her early 60s, Asha Bhosle's voice has matured since the heyday of her Bollywood career in the 60s-70s and in these reworkings of some of her greatest hits (written by her late husband R.K.Burman) it's positively honey-like. The collaboration with Kronos Quartet is inspired: substitute electronically enhanced violins for Duane Eddy guitars and you have an inkling of the ideas flying around the disc. The liner notes are informative and there's plenty of information for the Bollywood novice. However, whether you understand Hindi or not, this is a collection of songs - humorous, romantic, tacky, and at times so hilariously naff in the way of Indian homages to western pop it's actually cool! I would be amazed if you don't want to keep going back to it, once heard.

Clever, but...........2006-04-07

Chronos has always emphasized being clever over being musical- although they are splendid musicians- and this album is perhaps the ultimate exegesis of that. The actual music is perhaps exotic, to western ears, but it is also uninteresting. Indian film music combines the sound of the East with the banality of pop, and the result isn't anything that bears more than one listening; personally, I was continually reminded of the incidental Indian-themed music that kept popping up in the Beatles' movie "Help", although that soundtrack was a bit more clever. Another volume for the library of the die-hard Chronos fan, perhaps, but not necessarily anyone alse.

Bhosle, Pavrotti, Sinatra.......2006-02-12

Some vocalists are one-of-a-kind, brilliant and beautiful, setting the standard for their particular music. Asha Bhosle is one of them. I heard her with the Kronos in performance in San Francisco, and they took my breath away. This album isn't quite the same as being there but it's very, very close. Asha, Kronos - please do it again!

Cheap music.......2006-01-02

I dont know how the kronos quartet to come down so low. The music is cheap. I couldn't hear any of the tracks completely. They were so insipid.Complete waste of money. I have heard much better from Asha.

I Think They Should Have Selected a More Contemporary Singer.......2005-11-05

I love Asha Bhosle and one only has to listen to her Live at the Albert Hall album. Problem is, she has aged, and her voice shows it. Regrettably, her vocals on this album constantly remind me of this and I can't listen to the album with pleasure. I would say the same of such wonderful singers as June Carter and Amalia Mendoza. This was a wonderful opportunity to introduce much of the world to the zaniness of Bollywood movie music, with its fabulous arrangements and wacky use of all imaginable instruments from all over the world. Instead it makes me sad to hear Asha not at her peak.

Average customer rating:

PIYA RE Rupam Sarmah Manufacturer: RJ Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005MCWK Release Date: 2001-06-20

Tracks:

1. Piya Re Piya Re
2. Yara Yara Yara Yara
3. Safar He Ye Zindegi
4. Mahi Re
5. Goria Payalia
6. Jeevan Nadiya
7. O Soniye
8. Janeman Janeja

Album Description

'Piya Re' - Hindi Songs "A Great Sense of Love and Music"

International Music:

1. Previsão do Tempo [Original recording remastered] [Import]
2. Rituals of the Oubangui Gbanzili and Mbugu
3. Ronie & Central Do Brazil [Import]
4. Selection [Import]
5. Songs from the Attic, Vol. 6: Comical Duets
6. Sonos
7. Stop [Import] [Original recording remastered]
8. Sueno De Amor [Import]
9. Sunshine Rai [Import]
10. Tarantella Storta

International Music

International Music