dear all,
I've been eagerly waiting today to share with you a new song from my project mai farosh' called 'jaan-e-jaan'. its a funky tune that was conceived during the pandemic and completed with the amazing Kabir Agarwal adding bass and guitar in 2021. it has just been graced with this super fun music video by Hrutika Patole, featuring my love - Tamara Kazziha. i hope you enjoy this song. please share your feelings with me, share the song with your friends if you enjoy it, it would mean a lot! please go watch the video!
it's been so so long the last years waiting on unreleased music to be released, and i feel such a beautiful lightness now that all these babies are finally going out into the world.
there's much else yet to come this year - the equivalent of roughly 3 full length albums. i can't wait to share it all with you.
all my love,
M
I've been eagerly waiting today to share with you a new song from my project mai farosh' called 'jaan-e-jaan'. its a funky tune that was conceived during the pandemic and completed with the amazing Kabir Agarwal adding bass and guitar in 2021. it has just been graced with this super fun music video by Hrutika Patole, featuring my love - Tamara Kazziha. i hope you enjoy this song. please share your feelings with me, share the song with your friends if you enjoy it, it would mean a lot! please go watch the video!
it's been so so long the last years waiting on unreleased music to be released, and i feel such a beautiful lightness now that all these babies are finally going out into the world.
there's much else yet to come this year - the equivalent of roughly 3 full length albums. i can't wait to share it all with you.
all my love,
M
dear all,
i'm so happy to share a new track today from my project mai farosh, called sham'aa meaning 'flame'. the flame that attracts the moth, the fire of the beloved.
sham'aa was improvised strumming over a tuning i made with my friend's kankles (lithuanian harp). it was conceived in late 2019 and completed around mid 2020.
please find the bandcamp link in my bio and listen to and support the music.
all my love,
M
music and artwork by madhav agarwal
i'm so happy to share a new track today from my project mai farosh, called sham'aa meaning 'flame'. the flame that attracts the moth, the fire of the beloved.
sham'aa was improvised strumming over a tuning i made with my friend's kankles (lithuanian harp). it was conceived in late 2019 and completed around mid 2020.
please find the bandcamp link in my bio and listen to and support the music.
all my love,
M
music and artwork by madhav agarwal
dear all,
i'm so happy to share with you my new song 'paani'. this is my most ecstatic song so far. i'd like to believe it's about having (as opposed to wanting). as i grow up, i find the internal merging into the external. i find that if i pay attention, i can almost immediately see unfold outside what my inside is projecting; it becomes a matter of listening, caring.
no need to ask for attention
if i was to pay attention
i will find that i am the only one watching
the union after this long separation liberates and all is nought. the body of course binds itself to a finite experience, a painful experience but the release of pain i find in the heart of pain. i hold both in my own heart, i laugh and cry at the same time because that’s the only way to express this unfathomable beauty.
ultimately, the song is an ode to the power of love, the ecstatic wonders of faith and devotion to peace.
love,
madhav
9th august 2021
music written, composed, produced and performed by Madhav Agarwal
baansuri: Kartikeya Vashist
electric bass: Kabir Agarwal
film by Bhumanyu Nehra
featuring Seher Noor Mehra (Dance)
duniyadaariproductions.com
i'm so happy to share with you my new song 'paani'. this is my most ecstatic song so far. i'd like to believe it's about having (as opposed to wanting). as i grow up, i find the internal merging into the external. i find that if i pay attention, i can almost immediately see unfold outside what my inside is projecting; it becomes a matter of listening, caring.
no need to ask for attention
if i was to pay attention
i will find that i am the only one watching
the union after this long separation liberates and all is nought. the body of course binds itself to a finite experience, a painful experience but the release of pain i find in the heart of pain. i hold both in my own heart, i laugh and cry at the same time because that’s the only way to express this unfathomable beauty.
ultimately, the song is an ode to the power of love, the ecstatic wonders of faith and devotion to peace.
love,
madhav
9th august 2021
music written, composed, produced and performed by Madhav Agarwal
baansuri: Kartikeya Vashist
electric bass: Kabir Agarwal
film by Bhumanyu Nehra
featuring Seher Noor Mehra (Dance)
duniyadaariproductions.com
dear all,
i’m happy to finally share with you the 2nd record of my project ‘Mai Farosh’, recorded in the august of 2018.
the main recording is a 40 minute session of improvisation i made sitting on the floor of the chapel in st. erme. i met mari kvien brunvoll after a concert of 'building instrument' in kristiansand and our little chat and suggestion to collaborate inspired me lots. i landed back home in rotterdam and edited this recording and overdubbed a few voices to make the pieces more whole. she is part of the second segment of track 1 with her beautiful voice and also some remixing:)
another interesting note : track 2 begins with a mixture of compositions in raag alhaiya bilawal and raag khamaj that i learnt as a child from my guruji who probably learned them from his guruji and so on. such is the oral tradition of indian classical music:)
what to say about improvisation? there are no words and no statements here, it is emotional and ambient, however, the feeling, i am certain, is one of peace and calm, in the face of the infinite absurdity of this life.
i made some visuals the last days to go with the sounds. the album artwork is by my dear friend, the ever resplendent rafael vasilyev.
i’ve called the album ‘bandagi’ meaning devotion. devoted to peace. i hope it brings you some:)
love always,
madhav
2nd october 2020
i’m happy to finally share with you the 2nd record of my project ‘Mai Farosh’, recorded in the august of 2018.
the main recording is a 40 minute session of improvisation i made sitting on the floor of the chapel in st. erme. i met mari kvien brunvoll after a concert of 'building instrument' in kristiansand and our little chat and suggestion to collaborate inspired me lots. i landed back home in rotterdam and edited this recording and overdubbed a few voices to make the pieces more whole. she is part of the second segment of track 1 with her beautiful voice and also some remixing:)
another interesting note : track 2 begins with a mixture of compositions in raag alhaiya bilawal and raag khamaj that i learnt as a child from my guruji who probably learned them from his guruji and so on. such is the oral tradition of indian classical music:)
what to say about improvisation? there are no words and no statements here, it is emotional and ambient, however, the feeling, i am certain, is one of peace and calm, in the face of the infinite absurdity of this life.
i made some visuals the last days to go with the sounds. the album artwork is by my dear friend, the ever resplendent rafael vasilyev.
i’ve called the album ‘bandagi’ meaning devotion. devoted to peace. i hope it brings you some:)
love always,
madhav
2nd october 2020
Dear All,
I'm happy to share with you today the first LP of 'Mai Farosh' ('Wine Seller'). The idea with this record was to use traditional indian instruments to make music that is not of this time or any time.
My family home is in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, India close to the birthplace of one of my favourite poets - Mirza Ghalib. I grew up listening to my father recite (at every fitting occasion) a 'sher' from one of the hundreds of 'ghazals' he had memorised. I was amused at first at the complex refinement of Urdu literature, but enraptured by his incantations, the wine like quality of spoken Urdu.
The words in this record revolve around themes of dreams, memories and time. They talk about a state of 'be-khudi'(being without the self/ being beside oneself), a forgoing of knowledge and righteousness, a surrender to the higher powers of beauty and love. These ghazals I wrote in 2016 are dedicated to my father, a small thank you for introducing me to the wonder of poetry.
Another feature of my childhood was the blaring of cassettes from small sometimes broken stereo decks. These memories are some of my first impressions of music and I cherish that acoustic, raw, real (distorted) sound, the perfect mix of virtuosity and spirituality in the recordings of Old Indian Classical music, Begum Akhtar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mehdi Hassan. My inspiration for the sound design of this record came from these memories. Simple recording techniques to record complex music.
These songs are ecstatic because they came to me at a time in my life when I began to open up to the magical absurdism of everyday life. I am fascinated with energy and how multiple universes can co-exist (everything all at the same time), how clearly alien objects can come together in absolute harmony if there is a shared feeling, an openness to each other, a nurturing of all things that come with patience. These revelations are all contained in this record, I am happy that it is an honest representation of the last few years of my being here.
There's so much more to come in 2018. Until next time.
Love,
M
27th March, 2018
Madhav Agarwal : Voice, Harmonium, Ghungroo, Kazoo, Guitar (Yaar Ka Khat), Songwriting, Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering
Rengert Eggink : Guitar (Waqt, Haaye Rabba, Beparwah), Cello (Savera, Dil, Haaye Rabba), Recording, Mixing, Mastering
Rajat Mittal : Tabla, Dholak (Bemisaal, Dhuaan, Beparwah, Faraag)
Kartikeya Vashist : Bansuri, Algoza (Bemisaal, Faraag)
Lalit Sisodiya: Sarangi (Dhuaan)
Joan Mena : Guitar (Pardaa-Poshi)
Weronika Wrzosek : Violin (Waqt, Haaye Rabba)
Cyrill Rafael Vasilyev, Dmitri van den Wittenboer, Stefano Sgarbi : Voices (Waqt)
Front and Back Cover Artwork by Erlend Evensen
Recorded/ Mixed/ Mastered at Slow Down Studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2017/18
I'm happy to share with you today the first LP of 'Mai Farosh' ('Wine Seller'). The idea with this record was to use traditional indian instruments to make music that is not of this time or any time.
My family home is in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, India close to the birthplace of one of my favourite poets - Mirza Ghalib. I grew up listening to my father recite (at every fitting occasion) a 'sher' from one of the hundreds of 'ghazals' he had memorised. I was amused at first at the complex refinement of Urdu literature, but enraptured by his incantations, the wine like quality of spoken Urdu.
The words in this record revolve around themes of dreams, memories and time. They talk about a state of 'be-khudi'(being without the self/ being beside oneself), a forgoing of knowledge and righteousness, a surrender to the higher powers of beauty and love. These ghazals I wrote in 2016 are dedicated to my father, a small thank you for introducing me to the wonder of poetry.
Another feature of my childhood was the blaring of cassettes from small sometimes broken stereo decks. These memories are some of my first impressions of music and I cherish that acoustic, raw, real (distorted) sound, the perfect mix of virtuosity and spirituality in the recordings of Old Indian Classical music, Begum Akhtar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mehdi Hassan. My inspiration for the sound design of this record came from these memories. Simple recording techniques to record complex music.
These songs are ecstatic because they came to me at a time in my life when I began to open up to the magical absurdism of everyday life. I am fascinated with energy and how multiple universes can co-exist (everything all at the same time), how clearly alien objects can come together in absolute harmony if there is a shared feeling, an openness to each other, a nurturing of all things that come with patience. These revelations are all contained in this record, I am happy that it is an honest representation of the last few years of my being here.
There's so much more to come in 2018. Until next time.
Love,
M
27th March, 2018
Madhav Agarwal : Voice, Harmonium, Ghungroo, Kazoo, Guitar (Yaar Ka Khat), Songwriting, Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering
Rengert Eggink : Guitar (Waqt, Haaye Rabba, Beparwah), Cello (Savera, Dil, Haaye Rabba), Recording, Mixing, Mastering
Rajat Mittal : Tabla, Dholak (Bemisaal, Dhuaan, Beparwah, Faraag)
Kartikeya Vashist : Bansuri, Algoza (Bemisaal, Faraag)
Lalit Sisodiya: Sarangi (Dhuaan)
Joan Mena : Guitar (Pardaa-Poshi)
Weronika Wrzosek : Violin (Waqt, Haaye Rabba)
Cyrill Rafael Vasilyev, Dmitri van den Wittenboer, Stefano Sgarbi : Voices (Waqt)
Front and Back Cover Artwork by Erlend Evensen
Recorded/ Mixed/ Mastered at Slow Down Studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2017/18