Some Candid Confessions

#1 My favorite instrument (which I can somewhat play) was, is and (I think) always will be the Flute. I always feel like it's an extension of my soul - as if I sing through the Flute.

#2 My favorite instrument (otherwise) is the Piano. And the Organ. And the Accordian. Okay - Keyboards - get the point? It's the tones that turn me on, to be honest - be it a Rhondes Electric, a Hammond through Rotary Speakers, or the alien-ish textures Röyksopp generates from their MS-20s. Tones give me kicks.


#3 Same goes with Guitars - am a tone freak more than a serious player (hell, I learnt Guitar so that I could play along and sing - I started playing leads 'cause somewhere down the line I realized I'm not that great a singer, and I had to do something with the instrument...Ok make that #4) - my favorite "tones" people: Clapton (almost all electric), Di Meola (both his acoustic an electric tones), Eric Johnson (Cliffs of Dover is still the benchmark according to me), Andy Timmons, Satch (his cleaner and mid-heavy tones), Gilmour, Paul Gilbert, Morello, Guthrie Govan, Petrucci (though somehow Rudess' tones sound better :P)...


#5 Rabindrasangeet is my favorite "genre" of Music (however, not necessarily in the manner the world is used to listening to it - I think it sounds best when accompanied with a Piano or a Sarangi, and sung on loose rhythmic structures; and I somehow feel rains amplify the magic!). Jazz (Modal/Modern/Free - equal respect for all three), Blues, Alternative Rock, Avant-garde Electronica, Hindustani Classical and some select Bangla Rock/Alternative finish close, more or less in that order, if you press me; though I never believed much in this whole "genre"-al divisions in the first place.

#6 I always wanted to be a drummer. It kinda weird that I ended up being almost everything except that :-/


There, now you know so much more about me.


And, oh yes - Hi. I'm back to blogging again. Hope you have fun reading.


Time to get back to my studio. G'nite, God Bless.