New Delhi: It is that time of the year when everyone is busy compiling ‘Best Of The Year’ lists. So, here’s a low down on the high and low tunes of 2006.
While critics can't get enough of picking on Reshammiya’s nasal voice, the masses can't seem to get enough of that nasal sound not only in India but in England as well.
Now with a string of music schools planned, a clothing line with Pantaloon to his credit and a debut role in a film titled Aap Ka Suroor Reshammiya seems set to take over 2007 with a bang.
And it was the classical sound of the sarod and tabla, courtesy Ashish Khan and Ustad Zakir Hussain, that has put an Indian album on the Grammy nomination list for 2006.
Titled Golden Strings of the Sarod the album, that was actually just a casual jugalbandi between the two, has been nominated in the traditional World Music category and is Zakir's fourth Grammy nomination.
It was also a year that saw classics’ artists of a different tune find their way to India.
While the 80's love ballad guru's Air Supply rekindled their All Out of Love era, on a three-city tour Disco veterans Boney M took Delhi back to the time when Daddy Cool was a dance floor anthem.
Speaking of anthems Rang de Basanti's Paatshala is the track that's doubled up as this years floor filler as well as an example of the variety of bass-lines that Bollywood is experimenting with.
And when it comes to an international tune, it would have to be James Blunt with Beautiful, a track that had even the downloading generation willing to spend a few hundred just in order to have the good looking Blunt on a CD cover.
In the realm of music, it was also a year of loss as Bismillah Khan, the first man to have gone mainstream with the sound of the shehnai, died in August.
Known as much for the unique twist he'd give to the instrument as well as his constant plea for funds to better his conditions, it’s up to his students now to carry on the sound he dedicated a lifetime to.
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