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 […]
‘Round Midnight
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.
Review: Bangalore Blues in Jazz Journal UK
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 […]
Music from 1974-ish
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 […]
Album Review: Elmore Magazine
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, […]
Reveiws: Radha Thomas & Aman Mahajan – Bangalore Blues
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 […]
An Album By The Vocalist Of The Famous 70’s Indian Rock Band ‘Human Bondage’
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 […]
Bangalore Blues: Radha Thomas / Aman Mahajan – A Review
By Ramesh Shotham / 26 March 2020 Even though I’ve been a professional musician for a long time, it’s not an easy task for me to review an album; especially this one, since Radha and I go way back. And she’s made it even more difficult by challenging me in her email, “u can say […]
Jazz with a Hindustani flavour, wouldn’t that be cool!
THE ASIAN AGE | PRIYANKA CHANDANI | Mar 18, 2020 Jazz and pop vocalist Radha Thomas talks about her decades-long career as a musician and her upcoming album It’s been over four decades since Bangaluru-based vocalist Radha Thomas started pursuing her passion for music professionally. While she made a living with music as well as […]
Exclusive Premiere: Radha Thomas and Aman Mahajan’s Wistful Wanderings on ‘The Morning After’
Anurag Tagat Mar 15, 2020 Off their debut collaborative jazz album ‘Bangalore Blues’, the accompanying music video tells a story of a night out in New York City Radha Thomas and Aman Mahajan have released their first collaborative album ‘Bangalore Blues.’ Photo: Courtesy of the artist Bengaluru’s seasoned jazz voice Radha Thomas and pianist Aman Mahajan have been working […]
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