Hey Dinesh thats cool, good to know that RAHMANIA is going long ways...Where was this event exactly ? did RAHMANIA did this event themselves ? I mean is it some tour or was it organized for RAHMANIA ?
Regards, Sabrina --- In [email protected], "Dinesh Vaidya" <dnshvai...@...> wrote: > > Last Saturday, on 18'th July, RAHMANIA concert team of The Wandering Souls > celebrated their 6'th year in the AR RAHMAN University of continuous > Education by giving a CRISP and PROFESSIONAL performance of their hit show > RAHMANIA in Chinchwad city ( close to Pune ). > > This time, the group had practiced quite a few new songs and used new > technology. For the first time we used 48 track DIGITAL mixer console with > linear-array speaker system, the next best available is the one they use for > the mega concerts like Jai Ho concert. > > The group is led by Anmol Bhave, a renowned National Award winner Sound > Engineer and we also have two more sound Engineers in our team, Nikhil Mulay > and Pinak Agate, both will complete their Sound Engineering Degree from FTII > soon. Moreover the flautist Satyajit Kelkar is an accomplished Sound Designer > and owns his own Sound studio in Pune, so the emphasis on "correct RAHMAN > sound" is the backbone of all RAHMANIA shows. > > The show started with "Jaage Hai - from Guru", the full version, one of the > songs we attempted for the first time. The other new songs we performed > were... > "Nahin Saamne tu - Taal", > "Genda Phool - Delhi 6", > " Yeh Dilli hai meri jaan - Delhi 6", > "Lukka Chuppi - RDB ( complete with Rahman-Lata Aalap ), > "Ringa Ringa - SDM", > and a small medley of "Tu Mera Dost hai - Yuvvraj" + "Guzarish - Ghajini" and > one from JTYJN. > > The group had taken lot of care and efforts in replicating the special "ARR > SOUND". We played SITAR live on stage with Nahin Saamne tu.... Apart from > these, we had our usual hit numbers such as Chupke se & Hasti Rahe tu from > Saathiya, Yunhi Chala chal from Swades, Khwaja Mere Khwaja from JA, Patriotic > Medley, Bombay theme and Tuhi Re from Bombay, Dilse Re and Ay Ajnabi from Dil > se, Chandralekha from Thiruda Thiruda and Maiyaa Maiyaa from Guru. > > The show-stealers were certainly Lukka Chuppi / Genda Phool and Yeh Dilli hai > meri jaan.......... virtually all songs were received with a request for > "once-more" and the group obliged by accepting a few of them. > > As we are going closer and closer to the "Rahman sound", we find that the > target resets and we find that we have to do a lot more to reach the new > position....... ARR's songs are so much multi-layered that the more deep you > go in it, the more new layers you find and what I appreciate about this group > is that they are extremely passionate about ARRahman's music and are > extremely loyal to their GURU in preserving the quality and freshness of the > sound in each of their performance. > > All TWS artists, singers, musicians deserve full marks for attempting the > most difficult and challenging songs of ARR, and the group also delivered the > performance in style. I would mention here Parashar Joshi, who came in as a > last minute replacement due to accident to another singer and what a > performance Parashar gave ! Superb ! > > TWS has been invited by quite a few media / event management companies and > sponsors, almost 2 concerts per month and that's certainly a huge > encouragement for the group. > > Almost all TWS members are on Rahman Fans Yahoo group, so we can certainly > say that this is an exclusive band of the Yahoo group ? > > The Wandering Souls owes their 6 glorious and melodious years of existance to > AR Rahman and his loyal fans.........THANK YOU ! > > With best regards > Dinesh Vaidya > The Wandering Souls "RAHMANIA" > Pune >

