i bought his album last month in guwahati, and i really really enjoyed it - i highly recommend it! we need more such music from assam.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Biswajit Dutta Baruah <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I am not regular on this list. But I do subscribe to the list and have been > privy to the interesting discussions here on topics related to Assam. > > In this context, I wanted to mention a few words about Joi Barua. I am not > sure if he has been mentioned here before, but his music is reason enough to > do it once more, even if it were repetitive. I first saw his name on the > Music CD of the movie - Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara. He has been active in the > Bollywood world for some time now, though more as a sidekick than as the > main singer. There is some write up in wikipedia on him which I am sure all > of you can look up easily. > > That’s not the reason I want to mention him here. He has released an > Assamese rock album somewhere in Dec 2010/Jan 2011. I am not sure if > everyone would appreciate the music ...but to me it certainly is refreshing. > The music is good and the lyrics make sense. I don't remember any Indian > singing in a non-English language to music that is decidedly western!! Maybe > Rock on had some music of this sort, but those were by bigwigs from > Bollywood. So this is lovely and deserves applause. The album has > unfortunately been released in the internet as MP3 songs. Obviously they do > not have the backing of a big music label. To make it worse the music is > available on Amazon MP3 store, but cannot be purchased by Indians. > Fortunately for me I use the Ubuntu OS and was able to purchase the music > through Ubuntu One Music Store. I don't use Apple itunes, but if I am not > wrong music in iTunes is also not available for purchase by Indians. > > I wish I could tell everyone to buy the album. If you stay outside India, > please do buy this album. For those of us in India if you want to hear him > out there is a way out. You can visit google.co.in/music and search for > Joi Barua and hear him belt out Hindi songs. Couple of his songs and an > official video is also available for viewing in youtube. > > Regards, > > Biswajit Dutta Baruah > Chennai India > > ______________________________**_________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/**listinfo/assam_assamnet.org<http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > -- Uddipana Goswami www.jajabori-mon.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
