Aap Jaisa Koi.. The old bar number

Item songs have evolved from being an ordeal in olden days to a beautiful package these days. But even in those days there were actresses like Helen, Bindu, Aruna Irani and others who really rocked the stages. I have quite a lot of songs piled up in that genre. One of the bar numbers that I enjoy all time is "Aap Jaisa Koi" from the movie Qurbani. Zeenath Amman, one of those types, who played item girl being a heroine, was a great hit those days. This song is really good if played with drums. Anyways I've tried my best. I tried it already a couple of weeks back. But it didn't turn out well, so had to push it off and try it later. Check it out on my Jukebox. 

And check out the video of the song too.. You won't regret it ;-)

Converting FLAC files to MP3 - SWITCH SOUND FILE CONVERTER

This is a new software (SWITCH SOUND FILE CONVERTER) that I found which was really useful. I tried recording a song in FLAC format, to avoid extra jarring , vibrating or echoing noises because of the strumming of Guitar. This option is available on most of the latest sound recorders on PC/Laptop. It is a loss less CD quality output. But the problem was that the output files are over 25 MB per song. It is too big a file to upload the song on an online forum that we use. After a long search I found a converter online which supports Windows7 as well.  It handles most of the file formats for conversion. And it comes with a cool Recorder software too, which has its own music library. I personally liked it. We can try it for home recordings.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

Pal Pal Har Pal

Bueno, this was my first experiment after coming here! I had a friend from my college days in Chennai who had a beautiful voice for light music and was so keen in pursuing her suit in music. She used to keep calling me out for performances, somewhere or the other and wanted to never let go off her interests even for years after we passed out of college. I've seen that same fire in my neighbor here at Austin, a good friend of mine. She sings very beautifully and I wanted to record a song with her voice and my Guitar in the background. I had been thinking of doing this for a long time, but our schedules were so conflicting. Now that we both are available, I hope to do this more often.

This is one of my favorite Guitar numbers in Bollywood movies. Its a remake of an old English song, "Theme for a Dream".. It so happened that we ended up recording it with both of our voices. This is our first try.. no practice, no preparations, no time(!), recording quality is also not great.. We wish to improve in the coming ventures.

Click below for Pal pal pal har pal.. or find it on my jukebox! You can listen to it and leave your comments.

http://www.box.net/shared/i35p60t7zt