Namaste!–Raagapella!

February 5, 2006

Hey guys I dont know what but my blog is becomming an artist review site or something becuase Ive noticed that most of my posts are either just what happened in my life that week or let you guys know about a new artist or movie or anything of that sort!

Now this time I want to introduce to you guys a group named RAAGAPELLA! Have you guessed what the name means? well Raaga means music in my language an “pella” comes from Acapella! Therefore you would have guessed that this a fusion type group and yes it is! They mix Indian songs with the right amount of western songs that sound somewhat the similar and sing as a group in acapella! This group was formed in Stanford University California in the year 2002 and these guys are rocking the state California with their amazing music and performances!

Its like an indian Il Divo you could say. This was started by Jay Pandit, Sudeep Roy, Bobby Ghosh and Mehul Trivedi as part of a cultural show and now its is just huge winning the all state competition in California! Now last year they released their first CD too! And you can listen to some samples form this link: >>>>

Anyways It seems that I am very inspired by this group that I am on my planning stages to start something like this in U of T as well! I really like the idea of fusing Indian songs..the song would contain 75% indian songs but in between it will have a taste of western or any other type of music mix in it! But the fact that it is acapella bothers me as people get bored after a while with acapella songs…. So I hope that I can do something and get some instrumentalists too!
Well dont start thinking big or anything but I am really planning that these days and when next semester starts I would be ready to go with this! Getting the scores is quite difficult too…

anyways tomorrow is a big day as I am going to the Lord of The Rings preview..hopefully it is good and I enjoy it then next week as usual routine stuff nothing special! So await for my Lord of The Rings review too! Have fun!