7
Dec
2008
Old School Sunday – Alaap “Gabhroo Jawan Munde Paun Bhangra”
This is my favourite Alaap song. “Bhabiye Ni Bhabiye” was nice, but it doesn’t come into the same realm when it comes to the musical intensity of this song.
Off the 1994 album titled “It’s Boom,” the Dhol and Tumbi dominated track was another classic produced by Deepak Khazanchi.
15
Aug
2008
London Mela Videos
The sixth annual London Mela took place in West London last week, and it was a huge success.
Featured acts were Labh Janjua, Taz, Mona Singh, Rishi Rich Productions, Calgary native Raghav and Jassi Sidhu.
Highlights from the show include Jassi Sidhu performing an array of songs from the present, and from his B21 days for an hour!
Mona Singh brought out her father “The Godfather of Bhangra” Channi of Alaap, and performed a duet. Channi, still had the signature white scarf on.
Performing live seperates the men from the boys, and the women from the…not so womenly – well you get what I mean. Jassi Sidhu was probably the best performance of all of them followed by Raghav, with no taped PA backing them up.
Sponsored in part by the BBC Asian Network, you can catch all the performances here.
