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Best of 2011

2011

Another year is over. And it is time to compile the best of the Music that was featured on AI over the last twelve months. My output last year was low due to myriad personal reasons. But starting this year that might change for the better – I am going to be joined by a co-writer soon for AI! But more about him later, in another post. So, as I was saying, due to my lower output I had a smaller pool to choose from this year. But I hope I could do justice and this compilation will appeal to some of us. All of us won’t be happy of course. To quote from last year, “Music tastes are as

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The Great Indian Rock V

Various - The Great Indian Rock V

We have earlier featured the first 4 volumes of The Great Indian Rock – the annual compilation of the best of the underground Rock scene in India. And now we would like to present Vol. 5 of the series. This volume included the usual suspects – Orange Street and Parikrama – trusted veterans of the scene and also second-timers Envision and Ashtoreth. The rest of the bands were on their maiden appearance. This also marked the advent of Zero on the scene. They would of course go on to be arguably, one of the most popular bands in subsequent years and their guitarist Warren Mendonsa, whose Music has been posted here before, would become something of a legend in Rock

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Agni – Wind Dance with Fire

Agni-WindDanceWithFire

Agni was one of the bands of the first wave of Indian Rock, back in the mid-90s, when they released their debut album Wind Dance with Fire in 1995. The album was well-received despite the somewhat poorly-produced videos, a testament to the inherent musical quality of their compositions. Their video for Darkening Light, a brilliant Classic Rock track, received a fair amount of airplay on MTV Asia and the band looked set to go places. But as with most bands of that first wave prior to the phenomenon called Internet, their popularity did not translate to commercial viability because of relatively poor album sales and absence of other avenues of revenue generation, such as concerts and merchandise, and after another

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Nilima – Nothing Left But Me

Nilima - Nothing Left But Me

I cannot recall now how I stumbled upon Nilima’s website and the first strains of Nothing Left But Me stunned me with its beauty and grace but I am glad I did and then one thing led to another and I bought her entire EP. I also had the audacity to send her a fan mail and was then pleasantly surprised by a reply! I got even more brave and sent her a request to review her album here and give away a track for free. She agreed whole-heartedly and even said yes to my plea for an email interview – a first for AI! Nilima is part Indian(one parent), part Polish(the other parent!) and some parts German(she grew up

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Iron Maiden – El Dorado

Iron Maiden - El Dorado

Iron Maiden released their 15th studio album last month, The Final Frontier, which has sailed to the top of the charts straight away. As most clever bands do in this digital age, they have released their first single, El Dorado, online for free download. There is nothing much to review about an Iron Maiden track, because there are only two kinds of people in this world – people who love Maiden and people who don’t! I belong to the former category and this track is vintage Maiden. Enough said! As part of the album promotion, there’s a game as well as a video. (I can’t embed the video here since embedding is disabled.) The video is of the title track

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