Hindustan Times
As I write this, with a cup of coffee next to the keyboard, I have on my computer’s speakers Keller Williams playing 10 songs with minimal accompaniment—just a piano. It’s the perfect audio complement to a sunny morning in Feb when it’s not yet as hot as Delhi can get nor too chilly. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Althea, argus48, Attics of My Life, ballads, bass, Bird Song, bluegrass, Breathe, Brokedown Palace, Buzz, Can’t Come Down, Dance, Deadhead, Download Central, Dream, drum machines, Folk, Freek, Frightened Rabbit, Grass, guitars, He’s Gone, Home, indie band, Jazz, Jerry Garcia, Keller Williams, Keys, Laugh, live phrase looping, Loop, Music, Odd, Pedestrian Verse, percussion, piano, Pick, Quietly Now!, reggae, rock, Row Jimmy and Touch of Grey, Sanjoy Narayan, Scott Hutchinson, Scottish brogue, Selkirk, Sing The Greys, Spun, Stage, synths, Terrapin Station, The Grateful Dead, The Midnight Organ Fight, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, Thief, Twitter, Wharf Rat
Ever since iTunes opened up its store to customers in India, it has been bliss for me. I can now buy music at very reasonable prices – songs for as low as R12 and in some cases, even full albums for a dirt cheap R30. The opening up of the iTunes Store was the best thing to have happened for Indian music lovers but some of us, especially of the grey-haired (or, no-haired) vintage, the real deal is often all about buying the album in its physical, touchable form. There is a certain something about peeling off the plastic and opening up the jewel case of a new CD that digitally downloaded albums just can’t match. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 7:03 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Algiers, Allen Ginsberg, argus48, baroque pop, Ben Harper, Berlin, bhangra, Brooklyn, Bruce Springsteen, Calexico, cassettes, Charlie Musselwhite, Download Central, folk music, funk, Glühwein, Grizzly Bear, Handwritten, Here Comes My Man, Horn of Plenty, Howl, India, indie band, iTunes, Mr Dead & Mrs Free, Music, New York, Nick Hornby, North Indian, psychedelic rock, Red Baraat, Sanjoy Narayan, Shields, Shruggy Ji, The Gaslight Anthem, Twitter, Van Morrison, Veckatimest, vinyls, wedding, Yellow House
I have gushed before about The National’s Matt Berninger and his deep baritone voice and their songs with highly literate and intimate, if a bit self-absorbed, lyrics. The two albums of the Brooklyn-based band that I like—Alligator and Boxer—do routine overtime on my playlists. I like the sad (yet not soppy) undertone in many of their songs and the nice dose of intellectualism and wit. It would be fair enough to say The National is among my favourite bands.
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(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 4AD, Alligator, argus48, Blood Bank, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Bon Iver, Boxer, Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: The Songs of John Prine, Bruised Orange, Carl Newman, Challengers, Chen Shinki, Dan Bejar, Deer Tick, Destroyer, Download Central, For Emma, Forever Ago, Glue & Shinki, High Violet, Indie, indie band, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Justin Vernon, Matt Berninger, Neko Case, Records, Sanjoy Narayan, Speed, The Best of March Compilation, The Crash Years, The National, The New Pornographers, Together, Twenty Miles, Twin Cinema, Twitter, Zumpano
