Saturday, January 19 2008
Tan dole mera mann Dole is an Old Hindi movie Classic from the movie Nagin (1956) . The main melody of the song was played on a Snake Charmers flute also known as "Been" in Hindi. The melody is popular among South Asians, due to its association with Snakes & Charmers and its regular usage in Bollywood movies.
Naagin (rock version) was composed by Ripple when he was in the 11th Standard. He played this song with various other bands as a Guest Guitarist. That time no one was really serious about playing a Hindi Classic Melody in a metal band because of its association with Hindi/Bollywood music.
In 2005 Ripple joined Decibel, soon after joining "The Naagin" was re-phrased, with change in Drums, change in Rhythm structure & Basslines. Vijay(Ex-Vocalist) named it "Naagin the Lady Cobra".
Point to be noted: double 'a' in Naagin is a tribute to Ekta kapur and "The Lady Cobra" part is tribute to Hindi movie Titles like:-
Daag: the Fire
Lahoo the Blood
Billi - The Wild Cat
Hot Mashooka - A Dangerous Lover
Kamjori - The Weakness
Bullet - The Dhamaka Etc.
:D
The song was video recorded by Shashanka (Karthik's Elder Bro) @ their Jam Session and was later uploaded on Youtube to share it among their friends. To our surprise the video was a hit. It got 1k hits per month and within 10 months it reached 12000 hits and today it stands almost 38,000 views. Total of Naagin video views on Youtube stands almost 1 Lakh.
Decibel's Channel [v] Launchpad performance made the song an underground success. This lead to making of Naagin - The Lady Cobra and Naagin Bhaag 2. Naagin the lady Cobra is 2:47 track home recorded and Naagin Bhaag 2 is 3:31 Studio Song with new Bass lines, 2 melodies & better Drums. Naagin Bhaag 2 is an Album special which would be available with Decibel's Debut Album scheduled to be released by summer of 2008 alongwith Official Tablatures of All Decibel songs.
Some important Naagin links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OBGcvIhDNY (Old Video - Naagin in Making)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VNzLYYraFM (Naagin Live a Funny Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_i0D1QBqs (Fan Video of our Launchpad performance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRaD3LScLrQ (Channel [v] Episode of Naagin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HzEEFw7DE (Naagin Channel [v] promo)
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
The Album Session 2
Jan 11 2008:
Ghost in your mirror Session 2
1930 hrs, CR Park, Grey Studios:
The band hits the Grey Studios once again after period of almost 2 months to complete the recording of GIYM. This was supposedly Session 2 of Giym where Vocals and Keyboards were to be recorded. Ripple arrives @ 1830 hrs, no signs of Krishnan, Sanam & Anupam, had nothing to do other than roam around Basketball court opposite the studios :(
Anupam arrives a bit later fiddles around with recording session.
1930 hrs: Enter Sanam & Samar, Sanam warms up his throat and all, gets ready for recording of GIYM vocals. Everything went fine.. until Sanam started losing his voice. We had to cancel the Vocal recording and do the guitar tracks for Long Road of Dreams. The Drums & Bass tracks of Long Road were previously laid, so didn't take much time to make a rough track. Now Decibel is done recording with Bass,Drum & Guitars of 3 songs. Time Machine, Ghost in your mirror & Long road of Dreams.
Decibel is gearing up for Great Indian Rock its been our dream to play on Hamsadhwani Stage since 2003. High hopes this time, hope to make it through !! By the way we have a gig on 24th Jan alongwith Circus & Hypnosis, sponsored by Jack Daniels as a build Up gig for their Upcoming Rock Awards. The gig is at Opus, Vasant Vihar starting @ 8 p.m. We'll be the last band to play. Do come for it :)
Ghost in your mirror Session 2
1930 hrs, CR Park, Grey Studios:
The band hits the Grey Studios once again after period of almost 2 months to complete the recording of GIYM. This was supposedly Session 2 of Giym where Vocals and Keyboards were to be recorded. Ripple arrives @ 1830 hrs, no signs of Krishnan, Sanam & Anupam, had nothing to do other than roam around Basketball court opposite the studios :(
Anupam arrives a bit later fiddles around with recording session.
1930 hrs: Enter Sanam & Samar, Sanam warms up his throat and all, gets ready for recording of GIYM vocals. Everything went fine.. until Sanam started losing his voice. We had to cancel the Vocal recording and do the guitar tracks for Long Road of Dreams. The Drums & Bass tracks of Long Road were previously laid, so didn't take much time to make a rough track. Now Decibel is done recording with Bass,Drum & Guitars of 3 songs. Time Machine, Ghost in your mirror & Long road of Dreams.
Decibel is gearing up for Great Indian Rock its been our dream to play on Hamsadhwani Stage since 2003. High hopes this time, hope to make it through !! By the way we have a gig on 24th Jan alongwith Circus & Hypnosis, sponsored by Jack Daniels as a build Up gig for their Upcoming Rock Awards. The gig is at Opus, Vasant Vihar starting @ 8 p.m. We'll be the last band to play. Do come for it :)
The Album Session 1
14.11.2007
Ghost in your mirror Session 1
1930 hrs, CR Park, Grey Studios:
Got the Bass, Drum & Guitars finalised, have to wait for another week to get the Guitar Solos done. The band seems to be satisfied with all over sound rythm section which packs lots of punch and aggression. Nice work on tone done by our sound engineer Anupam. Krishnan likes the overall drum sound especially the Bass Drum kick and Snare shots. Bass tone is nice but Karthik and Ripple are not that satisfied with bass tone duirng Chorus. The problem might get sorted during mixing and mastering. Vocals and Keyboards are still left, the band members are currently busy with their exams, this might take another month to complete rest of the song.
Ghost in your mirror Session 1
1930 hrs, CR Park, Grey Studios:
Got the Bass, Drum & Guitars finalised, have to wait for another week to get the Guitar Solos done. The band seems to be satisfied with all over sound rythm section which packs lots of punch and aggression. Nice work on tone done by our sound engineer Anupam. Krishnan likes the overall drum sound especially the Bass Drum kick and Snare shots. Bass tone is nice but Karthik and Ripple are not that satisfied with bass tone duirng Chorus. The problem might get sorted during mixing and mastering. Vocals and Keyboards are still left, the band members are currently busy with their exams, this might take another month to complete rest of the song.
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