Bollywood Classical Maestro Aadesh Shrivastava Takes Indian Music Worldwide

Indian Music is surely making waves worldwide but the pioneer in taking Indian Music to a global platform is none other than the multi-faceted music composer cum singer Aadesh Shrivastava.

Little do many know, the music maestro happens to be the first Indian to record as many as four tracks at the Abbey Road Studio,London and will be releasing it under the album Global Sounds of Peace.

Global Sounds of Peace music album has been released globally through the highly renowned world music label A Train Entertainment based out of California and it's the first album that witnesses the collaboration of all the big-wigs in one album. 

Aadesh's pet project Global Sounds of Peace boasts of celebrities including the likes of Akon, Amitabh Bachchan, Wyclef Jean, Raghu Dixit, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kavita Seth, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Roop Kumar Rathod, Kailash Kher ,Vijayta Pandit along with Aadesh's sons Avitesh and Anivesh Shrivastava.

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Jubilant at the achievement that no Indian has, music giant Aadesh Shrivastava says, “I'm glad I succeeded in accomplishing what nobody has managed to so far in India.” He further adds, “The four tracks that I recorded at the Abbey Road Studio,London are a fusion of Indian and Western Classical and it's surely going to make everyone sit back and notice the creation.”

The music maestro recalls his experience of recording with London Fil Harmony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studio, “It was an out worldly experience. I recorded live with 85 musicians at a place where Beetles used to record. I have big plans about Global Sounds of Peace and it will begin with launching my International Label along with the album called Raaga Music. The label will promote spiritual world music and bring Indian music to a global platform.”

Global Sounds of Peace is now available on iTunes!: https://itunes.apple.com/album/global-sounds-of-peace/id669267936

Raj Kumar Hirani turns choreographer for P.K.

Raj Kumar Hirani turns choreographer for Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma

For one of the songs in his awaited upcoming film, PK, Raj Kumar Hirani wanted a very different signature move.

The director was keen to have a non filmy choreographer for this particular song and they went on an extensive search to get someone unusual on board for this.

Artists from France, Bangalore and other places were auditioned but Raju was not satisfied with the groove of the signature move.

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Even people from the cast and crew were given a chance to try but to no solution.

Kiran Rao who was on set once also tried making a cool move but it did not fit the feel of the song.

Apart from that, even Anushka Sharma tried her hands at it.

Finally, it was Raj Kumar Hirani, who came up with a cool signature move for the song.

Bosco – Ceasar then came on board and choreographed the entire song in the same mood.

The song is a light mood song and the makers are very happy with the way it has turned out to look

"Advertising will always be my passion but it’s just music for me”: Arjuna Harjai

It is rare sight to see people follow their dreams; one such amongst the million is the multi -talented Arjuna Harjai

Arjuna Harjai an Indian film composer, Musician and singer, working in Bollywood. After working as a jingle composer, he debuted as a film scorer in the 2011 with Hindi film, and debuted as a composer with Priyanshu Chatterjee starer Calapor for which he composed four original songs and background score (2013), His soon to release film Titoo MBA.

Arjuna cemented his career in classical music at a very young age under the guidance of his parents mainly influenced by Ghazal style. At an early age of 11, he started learning piano and studied till the grade 8th of Trinity College, later he also studied jazz and counterpoint composition with various teachers.

Having done all songs in his first commercial film along with background of the film, exhibits nothing but sheer brilliance of the man who left no stone unturned to follow his dreams and be a self made man, what he is today.

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In 2006 he came to the land of dreams Mumbai to pursue his dream and studied Indian classical music from renowned singer Suresh Wadkar and also finished his audio engineering in 2008 from SAE Institute in Mumbai. Well known for composing and singing advertising jingles he had his platter full with brands such as Cadbury Bournville, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Lenovo, Big Bazaar, Samsung, Maruti, Sprite, MTNL, Lovely Professional University, Ayur, Manhunt, Hillman, Marvel Tea, Lovely Sweets among others under his kitty, Arjuna has also assisted popular music composer Lalit Pandit for over a year on projects like Besharam as well.

Summarizing his journey Arjuna says “Advertising will always be my passion as this is where I started from. When I was a part of advertising industry I have usually received praise for my art. But I knew my inclination and passion was always towards Music. Being a part of this wonderful Music Industry is an absolute delight and now for me it’s just music”.