ANNIVERSARIES:
ANNIVERSARIES:
Suicide Song is a solo debut by Gowtham Lenin. The song was released on the world mental health day aiming to spread awareness on Suicide prevention. The current pandemic situation has been tough of all of us and many amongst us are struggling to cope up with depression and anxiety. few choose death as an easier way out. This song titled Suicide song urges all fellow beings to seek help when in struggling.
Gowtham is a Cinematographer by profession and has worked in over 20 movie in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. He is the son of renowned Malayalam Movie director Late Sri Lenin Rajendran. Gowtham has been working on his passion for music from his college days when he started playing guitar.He was hugely influenced from bands like Radiohead and Porcupine Tree.He has released two songs so far, the first one through his 2 piece band Astral Cars. The song was titled 'Waking life' which was based on Richard Linklater's movie Waking Life.
Gowtham has also released few electronic music albums which were primarily instagram/YouTube releases.
The links to his Music are :
Suicide Song By Gowtham Lenin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6QOMlmIcdU
Astral Cars - Waking life
https://youtu.be/MmUjtALgPqI
Those of you who have been around from the 1960's through the 1990's will remember the vibrant live music scene in almost every starred hotel in India. Those were the days when you walked into a nightclub like 'Rendezvous' at The Taj Mahal hotel and 'Supper Club' at the Oberoi Sheraton in Mumbai to see curtains going up on a band that was the prime focus of these outlets. Every seat in these restaurants allowed an unobstructed view of the band that performed every night on resident contracts. Today all this has disappeared thanks to some ridiculously high entertainment taxes on live music. Today, non off these hotels have complete bands playing save for a few that feature small duos or solo singers. The Lodhi in New Delhi, recently listed among the world's best hotels, decided to step in and rewind to the good old days. They got Goa's premier jazz quartet 'Jazz Junction' to move to Delhi on a resident contract and the decision has paid off in terms of footfalls generated by the band. Jazz Junction featuring singer Daniella Rodrigues, pianist Tony Dias,
bassist Colin D'Cruz and drummer Angelo Colasco began playing at The Lodhi in June 2018. Four months into the contract the band generated a sizeable following, with quite a few high profile guests choosing to celebrate their special occasion at the Elan bar where the band performs. Against all odds the rewind option proved to be a huge success and hopefully other properties around the country takes the cue to trigger a whole new revival of live music.
