The new song …produced half way around the globe!

WE DID IT !!
Abhi Ken and myself finalised yesterday our first ever collaboration – the new song “A Distant Land” .
Abhi was working out of his studio in Mumbai, India while I was doing the same over here in Geneva, Switzerland.
Working with Abhi was like a charm: agreeing on musical ideas, on what-to-do and what-to-avoid was completely intuitive. It feels like we had been working together for years.. when in reality we only started a month ago and we have never met in the physical world.
Moreover, Abhi was able to win Indian traditional / crossover singer, Deepika, for the production – and she really did a marvellous job.
The result is more beautiful than I could have imagined .. I have only praise for Abhi and for Deepika, who made this song into something absolutely special and unique.

You can listen to “A Distant Land” here
or ( if you are having trouble with the Myspace player… ) click HERE
 - Stay tuned –  
Erik

The Mozart of Madras

I would like to introduce the man whom they call “The Mozart of Madras” … his name is AR Rahman.

He is an incredibly talented musician, composer, arranger, producer, performer .. you name it , AR does it. And he does it very, very well. So far I have “only” listened to a double-CD collection entitled “Introducing AR Rahman” but when I listen to something intriguingly new, it means that the particular CD is in permanent rotation in my car’s cd player, for weeks on end.

AR manages to blend the Indian concept of melody-over-rhythm with our Western concept of Melody-over-Harmonies, and the result is almost always sensationally beautiful.

It is quite remarkable that although I do not speak a word of Hindi ( do you? ) AR’s music flows so naturally that it needs no explanations at all. Same was true for Mozart, the master of masters.

A great example of AR’s craft is “Thirakkaatha Kaattukulle”.

Peace and Love,

Erik