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Hi Vishwesh & Ashwini,
I hope you have received the certificates we had prepared for you. Let me know if you wanted any formal letter from KSS. You made a big change in our life here. I have listened to your CDs at least 10 times in a row. But, still on. My daughter (4 yrs), Neha and wife, Charu(Latha) have picked up some tunes and stanzas, and are "gun-gun ing" (Kannada Fusion). I am sure that many more KSS members are doing the same thing here. I hope that we have met your expectations. Wish you both good luck, and May God Bless you both. Yours Truely, Hari Hello,
I met you at sacramento on sunday, we performed after your show (chatra lahari). I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your program and you have an awesome voice and range. Keep up the good work. Btw, your CD is really good & great collection of songs! Regards Soma Shekar Bayarea, California Hi Vishwesh and Ashwini,
All the people of Sacramento enjoyed your program. All the KSS team thank you for coming down here and performing. It was really excellent program .. Hope to have you in future... Thanks again.. With warm regards Pandu Dear Vishwesh, and Ashwini, Hope you had a nice time here, and a happy journey. Thank you so much for your great performance. All KSS members enjoyed your program very much. You filled the auditorium with melody, music, and thrill to dance, and laugh. Let's know how we could have served you better. We look forward to have you here in future. Once again, thank you. Sincerely, Hari Shetty Secretary - KSS 2005
I just wanted to tell you folks that i thoroughly enjoyed listening to this album via KannadaAudio.com.
You are experts !
Sincerely, Dave Raum My name is Anantha. I live in Dallas, TX for the past 4 years. Last Nov. during Deepavali we were
in DFW Hindu Temple for 'Kannada mallige' function. During that time we had a chance to listen to your songs. While
going home my sister purchased your cassette Ghama.. Ghama. Few months back she & family left to India for good.
She listened to this cassette a lot of times and gave it to me before going to India. I been listening to it ever since. I thought its the right time to give you a note of appreciation. All songs are very good- you both are very good singers. Keep up the good work and keep up Kannada. See you in Dallas again soon. Anantha Shanabogue,
Dallas TX
Dear Mr/Mrs Vishwesh,
Namaskara. We are extremely happy with the interest that you have shown in becoming a part of our big family - Kannadaaudio.com.
We did visit your website and found your music samples to be awe-inspiring to say the least. We are glad that you chose our
platform for promoting yourself, and we assure you that we shall do our best to promote the talents of our fellow kannadigas,
no matter where they are. The basic tenet of our whole process being to promote kannada language and kannada music.
Again, we are extremely glad in welcoming you to our family, and look forward for a longer and deeper association with
you.
Praveen, kannada audio.com
We thoroughly enjoyed the music. Yes, Hareesh had mentioned about the difficulty of putting this
altogether by yourselves and the lack of availability of studio quality technical means and etc. However, I think that the
choice of the kavanas, janapada/folk songs, and the choice of the ragas, the rendering and above all the voice,
all these in a quorum kind of makes it a pleasurable experience. It over-shadows whatever minor technical nuances a music
critique may find in the album! The other important feat of this album, we personally thought was that, it is New and refreshing.
We must congratulate both of you of the effort and dedication and hope you continue to bring out
more.
Both by daughters Jahnavi(4 1/2) and Sharvari(1 1/2) now say "gama gama" in that tune. Jahnavi can
sing the first two lines! Thanks to you both! Best regards and the very best of luck.
Gopinath Tatachar,
NewJersy, USA vishviniyavarE,
nimma ghamaghama saMgrahada hADugaLannu kELide. vibhinna rAga saMyOjaneyalliruva ellA hADugaLannu
anEka bAri kELi AnaMdiside! "AvarAgava pADuve?" Di.vi.jiyavara I hADannu, nAnu nimmiMdalE modala bAri kELiddu. kurubarO...,
soMTada mEle, tiLi nI happaLa..oMdakkiMta oMdu aparUpada hADugaLannu hADiddIri. nimmiMda mattaShTu uttama gItegaLu namage
kELalu sigali eMdu hAraisuttEne.
ke. trivENi shrInivAsarAv
amerikA
Triveni Chicago, US (Tulasivana -thatskannada.com)
Hi,
I got a chance to hear your album. To tell you the truth, it was horrible!!. I could not even listen to the end of each song I had to switch to next song in the middle. Some songs I could not even understand the words what singer was singing. The singers are too bad. The meaning of Bhaavageethe comes from 'Bhaava'. Which is the main essense of _expression of words and feeling in the voice. Not just singing a song with some new instruments does not make it it any good. Also, I don't think music composers does not understand the meaning of the songs too. Mixed and mashed the songs very badly. Vasantha nmvasantha@yahoo.com It's a great effort from both of you with equally wonderful results. By the way, myself and
my wife very much liked the second song. Voice is very mature, hypnotic, fluent, and very electric. Next thing we
noticed with this particular song was less dominance by the musical instruments and more prominence to voice. This was
so well sung, it doesn't need any music. It often reminded us the MS Subbalaksmi's suprabhata, which we cherished for
decades.
While it has been a great efforts to fuse the western musing with Indian songs, we could sometime
sense the taste of nice coffee mixed with coke. May be in right tuned up proportion, they go well together. Nonetheless, it
is a great going. Once again congratulations on the good outcome. Keep it going.
Janardhan Swamy
California, USA Ghama Ghama album is excellent and i have bought one my best wishes to the couple for their future
projects.
Nagesh, Bangalore Namaskaara,
I had been meaning to write to you from the day I met you here in Dallas. Hope you guys are doing well and I wish you and Ashwini a very happy new year. My 2 year old daughter cannot sit in the car with out the Ghama Ghama song.. as soon as she gets into the car she wants us to play your CD. You have created an excellent piece of music in that CD. Please do visit Dallas again and stay with us, we can have some music jam sessions. Srivatsa Ramanathan Dallas, USA I really believe that it was and is worth it, because you both had your hearts in it, which
is a GIFT from GOD. Thou man has not yet caught on GOD looks at the heart and I know that he is proud of both of you.
I am sooooo!!!! proud of you both for overtaking such a project... Sometimes, money is not everything even thou you
invested so many dollar's in it. You both keep you chins up... and stay focused even in these times.. You both are
WINNERS and STARS in my book.
Debra Fluker
Memphis, USA I completely heard your CD "Ghama Ghama", on my journey. It is a very interesting effort. Good luck!
Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar
Bangalore, India My Father-in-law heard the songs and though he is not a Kannadiga, liked it and wanted to encourage
talent like yours. He wants to keep one CD for himself and gift one to his Kannada Teacher (at Bangalore Club).
Murali BalaSubramanyam
Memphis, USA
I have a new (needless to say kannada) CD which is, in my opinion, unlike many other kannada CDs.
I think it suits very well the now generation of kannadigAs. So said Mr.NSL himself.
Quick Background : In the online edition of Udayavani, there was a news item about an anivasi kannada couple who have produced their own CD; as luck would have it, at the end of the article, the e-mail address of Mr.vishvEshaBaT was given; the content of the article made me curious. So I used the e-mail address and wrote a casual e-mail. At this time, the artist was in Bangalore. But Mr.VishvEshaBaT promptly wrote an e-mail after he came back, and followed it up with a phone call. And Lo! and Behold! he sent me a copy of his CD which came today (sept 22, 2004) I am writing this e-mail after listening to it twice in a row. Whatever you may disagree with, I am sure you will agree that this is unlike other kannada CDs, and they form a dare-devil couple. Obviously, they are not afraid of experimenting. I feel if existing American and Canadian kannada kutAs do not encourage artists like this couple, who else should ? Their CD recommends them much more eloquently than anyone else can. You don't have to act on this, if you don't want to - but I feel glad to have parted with material information. Their phone number is 901-624-0642. Please respond at your leisure. Vijay kumar Montreal, Canada Talent finds people and people find talent. Very nice to see some one else verbalize exactly what
I felt when I heard the CD for the first time. It will go places. You have done your work, sit back and enjoy what it will
do now, and give it time.
Hareesh
Newyork, USA Excellent !! Your samples itself were lovely. Thanking you for viewing our web and commenting. Congratulations
upon both your acheivements. May you both reach greater heights. All the best for your future. May you both continue to give
pleasure to many more ears for many more years.....May Gods Blessings be with you both always.
With Love,
Smt. Bhagya Murthy
Singapore I listened to your whole CD. I was surprised at the variety. I think my favorite was track
# 6. It sounded a lot like a Country Western song. I also liked the track with Johnerson a lot. Good job. Congratulations.
Doug Mallory
Memphis, USA You both did an excellent job. I had a friend with me and she also enjoyed it. (she had never heard
you). You are a gifted soul and your voice is excellent (beyond words). I hope once you have it going and perhaps learn more
Hindi, punjabi etc. songs; you could entertain Indians in USA.
Urmila Jhaveri
Memphis, USA Dear Ashwini & Vishwesh,
We sure enjoyed having you guys over, both at our house as well as at the DeepavaLi function. I'm sure that a better sound system would have made a lot of difference, but everyone that was at the function, that I've spoken to after the function has lots of praises for you both for an excellent performance. Thanks to you both for accepting the invitation to come and perform in Dallas, though you had a long drive to get here and back. We all sincerely wish you both the very best and I am sure your hard work will definitely pay off and you get good exposure for your talent. A big thanks to Nikhilesh and Poornima for taking care of you guys as well. Last, but not the least,
all this would not have been possible had it not been for Sahana and Sunil who unfortunately missed the wonderful program.
Regards, Rajashri & Ramesh
Dallas, USA ..My daugther Sanju asked me "appa what you do think, do I like Vishwesh Mama's songs or not?" I
said, "I don't know, you must tell me". You know what her answer was "appa I love these songs, I feel like listening everyday"
and also she has added "appa..this is not like an American song which comes on Radio?"........I was surprised to hear that
.........You know she has told me "appa I will learn Piano well and next year during Taranga function I will play like Vishwesh
mama"........I can't believe that you have become so popular figure in her eyes ...........
Subbarao
Memphis, USA I received the "ghama ghama" CD yesterday and started enjoying it! Very nice and I am glad I got
to know abt it thru Bheemprakash and thatskannada.com. If I were to list the contents of CD in
my "favorite" order, it would be: "Sontada myaale", "Ghama ghama (VB version)", "muLLu koneya", "Uttunga..", "Kurubaro", "Doorake
doorake", "aawa raaga", "Thilini happala"... Well, that's just "Srivathsa Joshi" rearrangment and has nothing to do with individual
merit of each song in the CD. Don't take it personal. You both are gems and have made a nicest thing to Kannada.
Srivatsa Joshi
Maryland, USA I like your CD. Good vocals especially.
Al Hargett
Memphis, USA Vish,
Felt really happy to see you in India. At first I thought the back ground
music is not with the current trend. Just felt it is out of fashion and other few thoughts...All
these things took a back seat...if we consider...
- the enthusiasm you have shown all along for music
- the passion you have for music - the desire to give back some thing to the people around you - the thrust you have within, to show case your talents to people around you.. Kudos to the interesting couple from Memphis :) You have got a beautiful husky voice Ashwini. Let there be more trendy albums/attempts from both of you.
Vardaman Hegde
Bangalore, India I just came back from my Boston - New york trip, though the driving was hectic, it was a nice trip.
I had taken your audio CD along with me, all my friends enjoyed it & they want the audio CD. Please send across 5 audio
CD's to my address.
One of my friend is a hard rock fan, he doesn't even know kannada.., but he liked the songs very
much, especially the "KurubarO" :) he kept on humming the song driving all the way back from NY !
Kitta
Detroit, USA I had an opportunity to listen to excerpts from his CD, the quality and content is amazing!!!!
Satish kumar
New jersy, USA I got the CD and enjoyed listening to it also. It is really very good. Both of you have sung very
well. Background music and the tunes are very good too. Keep it up and Best of Luck!
Kalpana
Memphis, USA Vishwesh avarige namaskaragalu....
Naavu nimma Ghama Ghama CD haadugalannu kondu kelidevu. Tumba chennagi neevu haagu Ashwini haadiddirii. Adarallu Ashwini avara Aava raagava paaduve mattu nimmadu Utunga naadu bahala ishttavaayithu. Aadare kurubaro.... haadina lyrics asthu spashttavaagi kelisalilla. Dayavittu thavu adanna kalisalu saadhyave. vandanegalu... Sowmya Prasad
Detroit, USA Just wanted to share this with you all. Our good friend Vishwesh has come-up with an album. All I
would say is its 'Awesome'!!!! make sure you listen to the songs. We should be really proud of his achievement in this regard.
I see a 21 century Jagjit-Chitra in the making.
Way to go Vish....! Keep it up. Srikanth Patlu St.Louis, USA Congratulations!!!. The outcome is terrific, for a first shot!. Ella hadugaloo thumba chennagi moodi
bandive. Even at the time of responding to your mail, I'm listening......It's wonderful.
"ghama ghama" da Sungandha-parimala naaku dikkinalloo pasarisali antha nanna thumbu-hridayada haraikegalu. Munde, synthetic instruments jothe natural intruments noo meelaisebitre, bharjari "fusion" aagthade.....My Best Wishes to the Gifted Couple! Sridhara Hebbar,
Bangalore Excellent!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!
Both the songs are very nice. Music is nicely arranged & has the perfect match with the central character of the songs. I heartily appreciate your creativity. Above all both you & your wife have a very good voice. I have heard these songs more than fifty times & have found few technical problems regarding level of percussions, Bass drum’s punch, humming etc. I would have illustrated all but as you have written that level settings are still to be done, I suggest you to get the perfect levels before sending it to any mastering engineer otherwise it becomes very tough to fix such problems later. Rest everything is very nice. I am eager to listen all the songs of your album. My best wishes are
with you for your bright musical future.
I went through Kurubaro.. I don't understand lyrics, but I found that one, a perfect piece of music
with wonderful thought.
Nandkishore
Ajmer, Rajasthan * * * * * (5 stars) Kurabaro - I had to listen to this one three times.
It's refreshing and with the quick beat chances, it keeps you on your toes. It's exotic, very easy to listen to and fun. Thank you for giving me the honor of listening to it. Sontada Myale - You know why I loved this one, because of you and Johnersons collaboration, it is
extra special.
Uttunga - I loved the switches and balancing off, of the guitar and piano.
Ghama Ghama - I think I know what you were doing with both, you on the first track and your wife
on the second. I love the different flavors between you and Ashwini's voice, but the first one was a lot softer and I think
will be more appealing to women than men.
Vishwesh, very talented and great great tracks.
Kurabaro was like being in an opra hall, with all the marvelous acoustics. Thanks again for letting
me check out your cuts.
Doris Burnett
Memphis, USA I listened to all of them, they have come out quite well, few things which I felt could make the things more better is 1. Awaraga - Wish there could be some flute piece in it :) 2. KurubaRO - Tabla or some percussion would enhance the song even more, but thats the best I liked in the lot :) 3. Sontada myale - its fine as it is.., have work on acoustics a bit..reducing the reverberance.. Krishna prasad
Detroit, USA Awaraaagaa: Who sang that ? Ashwini ? I havent heard her voice much..:) It's wonderful !!!
kurubaroo is tooooo good..... Sontada mele... is it group song ? ur voice sounds different in this..
I really really loved it maan, I am proud.
I am sure it will definetely be accepted.. Wish u very very good luck. hey u look so professional man.. I am hearing couple of times now repeatedly.. Even tell Ashwini Congratulations, half the credit goes to her. Narasimha murthy
Bangalore Awaragava is completely classical n only the music behind is giving a different effect....may be
little difference in singing style would make it better. Kurubaroo has come out really well.......looks like it is perfect
!!! Happala has to be modified........it is not smooth going
Sontada myala.....doesnt sound very natural..!!! Kurubaroo is a real neat work ....Congratulate ur friend on behalf of me for that..
Sandhya
Bangalore Hi Vishwesh,
My brother received the CD. He also listened the songs. He just liked the songs.
He also mentioned 3 or 4 times that kurbaru song is very good that was sung by you. Thanks,
call you in the week end.
Srinivas
Vancouver, Canada Vishwesh and Team from Memphis (last program of the function). Amazing! Really talented
individuals. I would have celebrated the day in ten folds if we had given them a chance to sing for about 30 more minutes. If
we had improved our efficiency from the start, I am sure we could have done that. But anyway, it was great! Thanks
guys for driving from Memphis to entertain us.
I know local talent gets first preference, but the group from Memphis was amazing and if we had that
program in the afternoon after lunch, with instructions to sing "only kannada songs", I am sure we would have celebrated kannada
poetry "in fusion!".
H.N.Ramaswamy
Nrupatunga kannada kuta, Atlanta
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