I must thank Indian Express for their continued support to a non-commercial platform like Blogswara. This article appeared in their Kochi edition in the beginning of the month. Thanks to you guys, for your continued support to sustain the uncelebrated, off-stream music. (By the way, have you heard the songs yet?)
Express Features
First Published : 05 Mar 2010 12:48:00 AM IST
KOCHI: Blogswara , the internet music community that acts as a common platform for amateur musicians, has released its sixth album.
The album has 14 songs sung by 22 new artists in four Indian languages.
A free music movement where visitors/ listeners can listen and download mp3 files free of cost, Blogswara (www.blogswara.in) began as a blogging initiative by a few people around the globe, who loved to sing.
Till date, many of the singers associated with Blogswara have not met each other.
According to Joseph Thomas, who was one of the first to launch the concept of Blogswara, the attempt is to showcase the hidden talent of amateur singers before the world by producing original music and sharing it over the internet.
“Soon after the release of Blogswara version 5, we had begun with the work of the 6th album. For the first time, we have included a Telugu song, last time we had included a Kannada song. It’s the first time that so many amateurs are joining the effort, last time we had 15 new singers,” says Joseph.
Professional singers like Pradeep Somasundaram and TV anchor Divya have also rendered their voice for the album.
Blogswara proves that people, wherever they are or whatever languages they speak, can come together for a cause - here the cause being music.
And the digital age has made it easy for them to collaborate, the blog says.
True to its tagline, ‘United in Music’, the album has many lyricists and music composers from across the globe, who worked from their respective places together to come up with the album.
News link here