Jagjit Singh’s Evergreen Ghazals

8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011

Jagjit Singh, dubbed “The Ghazal King” was an Indian ghazal singer, composer, music director, activist and entrepreneur.

Here’s a compilation of Jagjit Singh’s soulful songs.

* Aaj Phir Unka Saamna

* Aap Ko Dekh Kar 

* Ae khuda ret ke sehra ko samandar kar de

* Ae Watan Mere Watan

* Baat niklegi to phir

* Badi Haseen Raat Thi

* Bol Ik Tare Jhan Jhan

* Chithhi na koyi sandesh 

* Chupke chupke raat din

* Dard Ke Phool Bhi

* Dhai Din Na Jawani

* Din aa gaye shabab

* Ek barahman ne kaha hai

* Ek Parvaz Dikha Di Hai

* Ek Purana Mausam Lauta

* Ek Pyar Ka Naghma

* Gulshan Ki Faqat Pholon

* Haath Chhoote Bhi To Rishtey Nahi

* Hazaron Khwahishein aisi

* Hosh Valon Ko Khabar Kya 

* Hothon se chhoo lo tum

*Hum to hain pardes mein

* Hum To Yun Apni Zindagi

* Is Nagri Mein

* Jab Kisise Koi Gila

* Jab samne tum aa jate ho

*  Jab se hum tabah hogay

* Jawan Hai Raat

* Jhuki Jhuki si nazar bekarar 

* Kabhi Khamosh Baithoge

* Kaise kaise hadse sehte rahe

* Kis Ka Chehera Main Dekhon

* Koi paas aayaa sawere-sawere

* Koi samkhe ga kya raz e gulshan

* Koi ye kaise bataye Ke Wo Tanha Kyu Hai

* Koyi Fariyaad Tere Dil main 

* Kya Khoya

* Kyun Zindagi Ki Raah Mein

* La Pilade Sharaab Ae Saki

* Maan Mausam Ka

* Main Bhool Jaon

* Mainu Tera Shabab Lai

* Maine Dil Se Kaha

* Mere Qareeb Na aao

* Mujhe Bichhad Ke Kush Rehte Ho

* Mujhe Hosh Nahin

* Na Mohabbat Na Dosti

* Nazar Nazar se milaa kar sharaab piite hain

* Pareshan raat saari hai

* Pyar mujhse jo kiya tumne

* Roshan jamal-e-yaar se hai anjuman tamaam

* Sadma to hai mujhe bhi ke tujhse juda hoon main

* Saraktii jaaye hai rukh se naqaab aahistaa aahistaa

* Shaam se aankh mein nami si hai

* Shayad main zindagi ki sehar

* Socha nahin achha bura 

* Tera chehra kitna suhaana lagta hai

* Tujhse rukhsat ki vo shaam

* Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho 

* Tum nahin, gham nahin sharaab nahin

* Tumko dekha to ye kayal aayaa 

* Tum Se Milkar

* Woh Kagaz Ki Kashti 

* Ya to mit jaaeeye ya mita deejiye

* Yaad kiya dil ne kaha ho tum

* Ye Jo Zindagi Ki Kitaab Hai

* Yeh Bata De Mujhe Zindagi 

* Yeh Tera Ghar  Yeh Mera Ghar

Football-Shaped Electronic Musical Instrument ‘AlphaSphere’ Unveiled

A team of Bristol sound engineers have unveiled the AlphaSphere – an electronic musical instrument.

Adam Place thought of the idea after getting bored with regular keyboards to play synthesized music.

Place thinks that the keys on a keyboard are just controllers and not like notes on a piano.

But when it comes to the AlphaSphere, the notes change as one presses harder and harder, allowing one to really engage and perform with the instrument.

The AlphaSphere has 48 pressure pads arranged round a sphere, like a big football, and on pressing one pad the sphere plays a drumbeat. But the beat accelerates when the pad is pressed slightly harder.

Another pad could be programmed with a chord with added harmonics coming in when the pad is pressed harder.

Whether musicians take to the AlphaSphere or not remains to be seen but as a business proposition it’s already winning approval.

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Kitara Digital Guitar

Misa Digital’s guitar-cum-synthesizer – the Kitara - has no strings attached. You just need to strum the virtual strings to play the Kitara!

The Kitara has an 8in multi-touch screen, a fretboard, a built-in polyphonic synthesizer and connects to MIDI devices.

You need to touch on the screen to play notes. The position & movement of your touch helps determine how the sound is generated & processed.

You can assign a single sound to all 6 strings, or the different strings can be assigned different sounds.

It takes around 20 mins to get the feel of it – but once you get going, there are a lot of things you could do with it.

It will be available in the UK and will cost €849.

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Music Therapy for Patients with Terminal Illness

Canadian researchers have found that music therapy has a profound effect on terminally ill patients.

The findings by music therapy professor Sandi Curtis of the Concordia University Department of Creative Arts Therapies, shows that music provides a great deal of solace to patients suffering from a terminal illness and who are confined to a hospice room or a hospital bed.

Curtis, along with musicians belonging to the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, played for 371 palliative care patients, for 15-60 minutes spanning 3 years from September 2005 till May 2008.

Curtis observed it had a significant positive influence on 3 palliative care patients and to everybody’s amazement, their families requested the musicians to perform at their funerals.

The findings revealed that musical encounters helped enhance pain relief, relaxation, comfort, mood, resilience, confidence, life quality & well-being in the patients.

Sometimes medication is not always successful as patients don’t just feel the physical pain, it’s the pain that comes with the anxiety & the fear of dying.

Indeed, music is a powerful distraction that eases pain, reduces anxiety and lifts mood. It does not have any side effects – just the power to affect people physically and emotionally.

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Sharing Musical Instruments Spreads Germs

 A pilot study shows that disease-causing germs live for a number of days in musical wind instruments such as the saxophone, clarinet and flute.

Every year, thousands of kids in elementary & high school share musical instruments but there isn’t any recognized standard for cleaning these instruments. Disease-causing germs tend to survive on commonly shared wind instruments for 1-2 days.

 

The researchers found living bacteria and also mold or yeast in samples collected from 20 clarinets, saxophones and flutes.Wooden reeds & mouthpieces harbored the largest quantities of bacteria.

Early research has revealed that shared musical instruments harbor bacteria & people playing them suffer from recurring sore throats & airway inflammation.

The researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine recommend proper cleaning of musical instruments, especially in schools.