Global effort in making music
By Asha P Nair
16th February 2009 12:22 AM
MUSIC and blogging - the most romantic pair ever born online. ‘Blogswara’, which started off as a collaborative musical endeavour by a couple of Indian bloggers, is a child born out of this love.
The story begins from Thrissur. Joseph Thomas, who loves blogging and singing, meets similar minds online and the idea of a music blog is born.
Initially, they sing for karaoke versions and post them in their own blogs.
Then they wonder: Why not do some original music? Narayan Venkit, a blogger in the US, writes the lyrics, Ajith in Chennai does the orchestration and Jo (as Joseph is fondly called) renders his melodious voice. Their first song, ‘Vaazhvu Chezhikka...’ happens.
Jo, who is presently working as a web-designer with a firm in Thiruvananthapuram, recalls the moments when their first album was launched, back in 2006. Version one (V1) of Blogswara (even the name was suggested by a blogger) had 11 songs, including a theme song.
``Everything was done online, without anyone seeing the other, for we were in different parts of the world, just the word Indian uniting us. And, of course, music. Bloggers did everything, including recording and mixing,’’ he says.
When the bloggers decided to launch V2 of Blogswara, there was one major change. This time, they included non-bloggers too. But the music did not lose its intensity. ``The music is an interesting mix of rawness and finesse, and of tradition and modernism and post- modernism, and of our loves, hopes and desires,’’ Blogswara says in its own pages at http://www.blogswara.in.
Last December, they released the V5 of Blogswara, for the first time including a Kannada song and wonderful instrumental music by a foreign musician Jerry Oviedo. The latest version saw as many as 15 new musicians becoming its part. The older versions had only carried Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil songs.
Have they ever thought of bringing out their music in the market?
``We began Blogswara with the objective of providing a platform for amateur musicians online. Music here is freely distributed. No commercial aspects have so far entered our thoughts,’’ Jo says.
But there are new ideas, he adds. As the team now gets ready to launch V6 of Blogswara, the ideas might get a shape. ``In the next version, we hope to include a video song too; visualisation of any of the songs in the album. And we also hope to take our songs to popular FM radios, so that our musicians get more encouragement,’’ Jo shares the dream of Blogswara.
And may be one day, these online musicians will meet in person. As of now, they are united only through music, and their blog.
anil.asha@gmail.com
The story begins from Thrissur. Joseph Thomas, who loves blogging and singing, meets similar minds online and the idea of a music blog is born.
Initially, they sing for karaoke versions and post them in their own blogs.
Then they wonder: Why not do some original music? Narayan Venkit, a blogger in the US, writes the lyrics, Ajith in Chennai does the orchestration and Jo (as Joseph is fondly called) renders his melodious voice. Their first song, ‘Vaazhvu Chezhikka...’ happens.
Jo, who is presently working as a web-designer with a firm in Thiruvananthapuram, recalls the moments when their first album was launched, back in 2006. Version one (V1) of Blogswara (even the name was suggested by a blogger) had 11 songs, including a theme song.
``Everything was done online, without anyone seeing the other, for we were in different parts of the world, just the word Indian uniting us. And, of course, music. Bloggers did everything, including recording and mixing,’’ he says.
When the bloggers decided to launch V2 of Blogswara, there was one major change. This time, they included non-bloggers too. But the music did not lose its intensity. ``The music is an interesting mix of rawness and finesse, and of tradition and modernism and post- modernism, and of our loves, hopes and desires,’’ Blogswara says in its own pages at http://www.blogswara.in.
Last December, they released the V5 of Blogswara, for the first time including a Kannada song and wonderful instrumental music by a foreign musician Jerry Oviedo. The latest version saw as many as 15 new musicians becoming its part. The older versions had only carried Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil songs.
Have they ever thought of bringing out their music in the market?
``We began Blogswara with the objective of providing a platform for amateur musicians online. Music here is freely distributed. No commercial aspects have so far entered our thoughts,’’ Jo says.
But there are new ideas, he adds. As the team now gets ready to launch V6 of Blogswara, the ideas might get a shape. ``In the next version, we hope to include a video song too; visualisation of any of the songs in the album. And we also hope to take our songs to popular FM radios, so that our musicians get more encouragement,’’ Jo shares the dream of Blogswara.
And may be one day, these online musicians will meet in person. As of now, they are united only through music, and their blog.
anil.asha@gmail.com
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