Category: Music
I am back with another one of John Denver’s songs, My Sweet Lady. With soulful words and a heartfelt melody, this is one of my all time favorite songs. I recorded this today as a first attempt on a lazy Friday. After recording the song, I went back and recorded the Intro melody, which pretty…
Here is a beautiful Nazm by Faiz Ahmad Faiz Sahab, one of the greatest Urdu Poets of 20th century. Also presented is an Audio version by Iqbal Bano. Enjoy! [audio:http://gdhar80.googlepages.com/iqbalbanoyaad.mp3] Audio Courtesy: Aligarians.com
Here is another song by Nikhil, whose song-writing and composing skills have won this website many fans. This is a very poignant and thought-provoking ballad written and composed by Nik that we recorded couple weeks ago during our jam sessions. This time also we did two versions, one in which he sang and the other…
Nikhil and I got together again this weekend and worked on some songs. We tried our hand at composing a few and ended up recording about 8 songs. Here is a song that I had written back in August 2004. Nikhil came up with an upbeat melody in about 15 mins. and we decided to…
Here is by far the best work by Justin and I. This is a song that I wrote for my brother and my sister-in-law on their wedding anniversary earlier this year. The original music is by Brandon, which was slightly modified by Justin to suit the lyrics (which were also modified slightly from the original…
Here is another collaboratory work from Iktara’s early days when Nikhil and I recorded this Beatles song. A George Harrison (Beatles member) classic, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is more of a rock song, but we took the Acoustic route and did a mellowed down rendition. Nikhil played the picking on his Electric Guitar and…
About a month ago, I received an email from the host of a online Radio Show/Podcast. She said that she would be interested in me sending some of my songs and asked me to send in a couple songs, which they would like to feature on their show. So I went ahead and sent in…
This weekend after returning from the Gita Retreat, I practiced Heartbreak Hotel on Guitar and out of that I tried creating an improvised tune, which I tried to record this evening. I don’t play rock & roll on guitar too much, but here’s an attempt. Thanks to my cousin’s Washburn Guitar, which I played on….
It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog, so heres’s another one of my recent recordings from couple weeks ago. This one is an old classic “For the good times”. When you’re back home and I’m far away I’d still be thinking of days that were.. Anyhow, click on the play button to start…