album update

Had significant progress in the weekend, and recording is complete. Mixing and other things are pending and hoping to release in a month or so. It may be worth noting that the title song for my second album is sung by Sreeram (of Indian Idol fame) and he acknowledged the uniqueness and strength in my composition (after all, when heart is fully involved, creativity is just a natural phenomenon).

Visit to sabarimala, Jan 04, 2011

I had concluded my ayyappa mala by visiting sabarimala and following the process like any other devotee. There were all kinds of troubles in the visit and something tells me that it is for good. Introspecting why I did what I did, I got more affirmative on the cause regardless of what the effect is going to be. I don't think it makes sense to articulate the difficulties in the path, or narrate the cause for my visit. It did not make sense to take any pictures at Sabarimala though we captured a couple of moments while taking Irumudi at Mettiguda ayyappa temple in Hyderabad (will upload in facebook later). I am looking forward for climbing those 18 steps again and witnessing the embodiment of the divine form again.

2011 begins

One day away from weekly office work - Was quite busy with AppLabs work till last Friday - 10 straight hours in the Super Good films recording studio on January 1st, 2011. I opened the year by making significant progress on recording my latest composition (sang it myself since it is very personal) and also by completing some of the pending work in the previous songs. Covered parts of 3 songs in total.

To my intellectual delightment one of my old-student/employee/friend/brother Chaitu (known as Krishna Chaitanya of the Sehari from Oye fame etc) gifted a lyric on me at 12:00 AM yesterday to support my current state, making me to get inspired from my own contributions to him and others. I never knew he would word one me to the extent what he did - he claims it is his synopsis about me :-). Rahul and Sahiti sang it perfectly inline with my spontaneous composition (I did it in less than an hour with a basic feed that I will improvise/instrument when I get time). I attribute my today's productivity to the power of my cause (while I keep my fingers crossed on the effect) living in my heart!