LYRICS The birds outside my window, getting louder by the day A tribe of sparrows quarrels till I shoo, shoo them away Well right behind up close I hear a murder of crows A strange symphonic, cacophonic, avian prose Mosque and temples, churches standing quiet, empty and still For once it seems religion’s lost its […]
I was trying to write lyrics to a melody that was playing in my head and I couldn’t hear myself think. It was the birds outside. Cackling, cawing, chirping, #tweeting and generally creating what I can only describe as strange, symphonic, cacophonic avian prose. @RamjeeChandran put the chords together since I mostly know only A,D […]
I HOPE THAT SOME DAY I’LL SEE YOU AGAIN (Written by Radha Thomas / Aman Mahajan Performed by Radha Thomas and Ramjee Chandran) What do I get from the air that I breathe The atmosphere is churning, all I do is seethe Yes, there is life floating everywhere Nothing that’s kind, certainly nothing that cares […]
I wrote this song in April 2020 when it looked like this COVID lockdown would never, ever end. My son Stefan Persson and daughter-in-law Linda live in New York City and i missed them desperately. It’s June 11 today, and I still have no idea when I’ll see them again. Aman Mahajan created the right […]
On June 3, 2020 around midnight, Ramjee and decided to put on a concert for our doggies Kara and Brownie in our living room in Bangalore. We got all dressed up, put up a stage curtain and played our hearts out. The dogs went to sleep.
By Garry Booth, 15 June 2020 It’s surprising that Indian musicians haven’t made greater inroads into jazz. Of course, there are significant examples of Western players being influenced by Indian music and Indian instrumentalists have also featured in jazz settings, most memorably in John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu and Shakti groups. But Indian jazz singers […]
Many people ask me if I have any music from the time I was the lead singer in the Human Bondage, a rock and roll band in India, led my my then-husband Suresh Shottam and his brother Ramesh Shotham. Yes, they had different spellings for their last name. They have another brother Naresh, whose […]
Jim Hynes / 29 April 2020 Radha Thomas, a veteran rock and jazz vocalist who is also Indian classically trained, joins with improvisational pianist Aman Mahajan for this spare duo performance where both contribute compositions, with Thomas responsible for the lyrics. Thomas sings while Mahajan plays either acoustic piano or Fender Rhodes across seven songs, […]
by George W. Harris • April 6, 2020 Intimate duets by vocalist/composer Radha Thomas and keyboardist/pianist Aman Mahajan are created on this collection of seven thoughtful musings. Thomas’ voice possesses an alluring and secretive whisper, as if she’s letting you in on a secret, sounding like a vagabond on the title track or delivering observations […]
April 5, 2020: Priyadarshini Bishnoi, Indian Music Diaries If nothing else, we are all experiencing something frighteningly dystopian at this time. While we rest within the four walls of our houses, nature is busy birthing means of catharsis for mankind. It is in the cacophony of the birds, tingling drops of water, the whoosh of […]
