We thank all our customers and patrons who visited our stalls at the Hyderabad Book Fair. We are glad to announce that we received the ‘Best Stall Award’ at the Hyderabad Book Fair, 2009, in the non-books category.

For all music lovers who are looking for information on where our albums are available, here are the names of some of the prominent dealers in Hyderabad, where you will find all our albums:

• Supreme Music, Koti
• New Bharat, Koti
• Sangeet Sagar, Secunderabad
• Sangeet Sagar, Basheerbagh
• Himalaya Book Depot, Nampally
• Music World, Masab Tank

Of course, all our albums are on display and sale at our premises at our office:

5-4-670/B, 2nd floor, ‘Sri Durga Nilayam,’

Next to BJP Office, Nampally Station Road,

Hyderabad – 500001.

Once again, we thank everyone, and convey our best wishes for a happy new year and Pongal. We hope to see you all again at the Book Fair this year, and if possible, before that too!

The 24th edition of the Hyderabad Book Fair is being held between Dec 17 and Dec 27, 2009 at Peoples Plaza, Necklace Road, Hyd.

Timings:

Weekdays: 2.00 PM to 8.30 PM

Saturday & Sunday: 12.00 Noon to 9.00 PM

We welcome you to visit our stalls and listen to our soothing and relaxing albums!

• Easy listening series – Refreshing Evening Music
• Hindi Devotionals - Kabir Vani
• Carnatic Classical – The Rare Melody

You can listen to the audio samples by clicking on the audio player below.

‘Refreshing Evening Music’ is another masterpiece on the lines of ‘Music for Peace‘ and ‘Music for Late Evenings.‘  The purpose of the album is to make your evenings more delightful. Of course, one need not restrict the listening of this album only to the evenings. It can be heard at any time because the idea is to impart a sense of relaxation and enjoyment to the listener.

With ‘Kabir Vani,’ Mahageeta Music steps into the world of Hindi Devotionals.  Kabir Vani is a collection of soulful Hindi bhajans of Sant Kabir Das sung very melodiously by Anupama Shrivastava to the music compostion of Shri Rajendra Sharma.

The Rare Melody is a unique album of Carnatic Classical keertans.

Here the rendition is neither through an instrument nor entirely vocal. It is a rare medium of melody that emits from soothing sound waves from a human mouth in the form of ‘whistle.’ Whistle Wizard K. Siva Prasad is at his best in the album that has masterpieces like ‘Samaja vara gamana.’

All the above albums are available for download from our website www.mahageetamusic.com.

As always, we look forward to your comments and feedback on our albums .  Please do continue to write to us with your valuable suggestions!

This week, I would like to appeal to all music lovers and non music lovers to discourage PIRACY.

Please do not encourage piracy by buying or selling pirated music albums.

Piracy kills music companies. Music companies invest lakhs and crores of funds,   to release the albums. Not just that, a lot of hard work is behind every album that you listen or watch. If the required sale is not obtained from these albums, then its very difficult for these companies to survive in long course.

Whenever there is a theft or dacoity in any house or any place, then there is lot of hue and cry in the society. Media also highlights that. But, not in the case of piracy. Piracy is also just equal to any  robbery or theft.  Piracy, in fact is more dangerous than robbery.

Therefore, it is humble appeal to all music lovers not to encourage piracy. You may get a pirated CD for a few rupees/dollar less. However, you may not get the same quality that you would get from the original CD.

Why does Mahageeta Music stress so much on quality? Why do we wait for months together to get dates for the best artistes? Why don’t we compromise?

The answer is the complete faith of Mahageeta patrons in our products – the trust that they have in our company, which in turn is because of the quality of music that they have been used to from us.

Most of us get disturbed when we hear loud, jarring music. However, all of us get angry when we know that someone or some company had the potential to produce more quality music, but did not, only because they compromised due to some or the other reason. We do not want to compromise in any way with our quality. Our aim has been and will always be to produce superb quality music that you will love to hear again and again.

I’m pleased to inform you all that I got a wonderful opportunity to serve our veteran music home – All India Radio, Archives (South), Hyderabad.

Let me describe the job:

In the Archives department of All India Radio, there are thousands of old recordings of the music maestros preserved in the spool tapes (an old format in which sound was recorded and played back on spool players). Today, that format is obsolete and we don’t find them at all in the market.

My job was to refurbish all those old recordings, transform them into a Compact Disc format, make good inlay cards and pack them to be made available for sale to all the music lovers. All such refurbished albums are available for buying at all the All India Radio station premises.

I’m trying to give the best output possible from my end, for the mother of music-All India Radio.

Some of the albums available in CD format are:

1. Surya Stuti,
2. Narayana Teertha Tarangalu,
3. Rajani Patalu,
4. Kanya sulkam (Play),
5. Ganapathy (Play),
6. Varavikrayam (Play),
7. Siva Stuti,
8. DevulaPalli Krishna Sastry Lalitha Geethalu,
9. Bhakti Geethalu,
10. Ramadasu Keerthanalu,
11. Bhajagovinda Slokalu and many more…

Interested people can buy these albums at the AIR premises.

Welcome to Bhagi’s Blog. Here is a forum and a platform where you can discuss anything and everything about music. You can interact with me to share my experiences in the music industry and also to give me an opportunity to learn more about music and the industry with your experiences in this aspect.

Today, the world has become very small under the cover called ‘communication’. Of late, technology has improved to such an extent that people can reach each other over phone whenever they want and wherever they desire at a very less burden to their pocket. Similarly, methods in audio recording have also taken a sea change. First, it was spool recorders on which our old melodies were recorded. Then came the LPs, Cassettes and Compact Discs and I-pods with Wave, MP3, MP4, MP5 formats. Each type of audio storage device has its own advantages and drawbacks.

Today, one can record his or her voice on a computer and modify it, store it, send it to their friends & relatives in Mp3 format wherever they are on the globe.

When I think of this revolutionary change, I can’t help but feel amazed at the way our technology has progressed in every direction. However, old is always gold, and no matter what we do, we may not be able to reproduce the same melody and golden era of music that we saw during the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s. As lovers of music, we will always be indebted to our great singers, composers, artists of the Film Industry, be it Telugu or Hindi for their vast, unparalleled contribution to the melody world.

We could have interesting discussions in this forum on topics such as:

• Audio storage formats & devices
• Audio editing software,
• Recording theatres,
• Scale, tempo, sruthi and thalam,
• Mikes, amplifiers, acoustics and mike culture,
• Orchestration, instrumentalists, vocalists, music instruments and their availability in Hyderabad,
• Melody of musical instruments and ….the list is almost endless.

Please feel free to share your views and experiences in this forum to improve our music related knowledge, so that we all enjoy music more and more.

With melodious regards,

Srinivas Bhagi

MAHAGEETA MUSIC