Category: Ripe Vinyl
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Ripe Vinyl #21 | I’ve Never Been Here Before: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Even if I am frustrated with the unrefined and frankly monotonous sound of the album. I struggle to think of any change that could objectively improve the album. The band have enviably managed to capitalise even on their blemishes and create an imperfectly perfect album. Read More
8–13 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #20 | Soulful Symphony: Entharo Mahanubhavulu by Vidyasagar
A review of “Entharo Mahanubhavulu” from Devadoothan (2000), where Vidyasagar’s masterful composition elevated Tyagaraja’s timeless kriti into an unforgettable cinematic experience. Read More
4–7 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #19 | Casual by Chappell Roan
Do you ever have this moment – where you hear a song for the first time, and you’re not even thirty seconds in, but it’s already struck a chord in you? I’ve had a rare handful of them, because music usually endears itself to me over time and repeated listens. But this April, I heard… Read More
5–7 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #18 | Rammstein – Deutschland: Of Conundrum of Country and Citizen
And I no longer know how to understand Deutschland. The song yearns for reconciliation with a bloody and troubled national past. But what does one do when living in the bloody and troubled present that has not yet become the past? How does one reconcile with their conscience over their inaction, deliberate silence – can… Read More
4–7 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #17 | Veridis Quo by Daft Punk
Daft Punk, with its history of experimenting with genres and styles like electro, punk, jazz, rock, prog-rock, etc. attains their electric peak in Veridis Quo, where we witness and feel their musical brilliance stripped to its bare and beautiful essentials, all so slenderly slight that they lead a quiet pulse full of existence into the… Read More
3–5 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #16 | The Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov
— Yatin Satish It’s a simple life. Gregory Alan Isakov is a farmer, and he’s got a nice little patch of land – about three-quarters of an acre – in beautiful Boulder County, Colorado, where he sows his produce. The man is extremely satisfied with everything he grows – Turnips; Carrots; Beets. Mostly quick-turning crops. Read More
6–8 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #15 | Phir le aaya dil
— Gowri Raj Varma Somewhere in the crevices of my memory is a song lying dusty and forgotten. I know not what the melodies are, I know not the pattern of notes strung together. But what I do know is that in the depth of my dreams, I dance to it. Languidly, with no hurry, Read More
5–7 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #14 | Qongqothwane – Miriam Makeba
Makeba herself had suffered intensely because of racism and apartheid in her early life, and her activism against apartheid even got her banned from entering South Africa for over 30 years. It’s not surprising to see why Makeba takes this song’s preface as an opportunity to symbolically undermine the hegemony of colonial rule in a… Read More
3–4 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #13 | Sudhandiram Oru Dabba – Kurangan
When I was asked to write about my “Music Story”, I found that it was a Herculean task. First, what is a music story, really? And as much as I like Kurangan, there is so much out there. How does one really choose? Because I still love my Rahman and Raja, and sometimes classical music… Read More
4–6 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #12 | Afreen Afreen – Coke Studio
For me, this song is a tryst of reveries and of remembrance, of lazy afternoons spent basking in the warmth of friendship and self-love. Of evenings spent talking about anything and everything under the sun. Of nights spent with great company, recounting raucous tales or simply losing ourselves in the beauty of the stars. Of… Read More
5–7 minutes
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