The monsoon rains are upon us and we sit with laptops and worry about flooding! Unbalanced state of "progress". The studio's upgradation is done, we' ve been busy with work for various radio stations, foremost among them being Mirchi, followed by City and Indigo. Our promos play all day long on Mirchi and it's great fun to ideate and come up with "Mirchi" promos.
The theme song for Kasturi is also on our minds. Ram has worked out the contacts and starting tomorrow, we shall be busy recording the various segments of the song.
I met Sivanand Hegde yesterday at Vivek Shanbhag's book reading. He is the famous Yakshagana artist Shambhu Hegde's son and he is bringing in his troupe for the Yakshagana recording tomorrow. More of the book reading- it's been very many years since I met Vivek or Dr U R Ananthamoorthy, the whole family actually. Also bumped into Jayant Kaikini, Vivek Dhareshwar, Sarvamangala, Mukund Rao, Girish Kasaravalli and Vaishali. After being mainly into the music world for sometime now, it was a snatch of another world at the book release and reading. Some critics and fans read out from Vivek's book "Ondu badi kadalu".
On Wednesday we have Darojee Eeramma, acclaimed folk artist coming in from Raichur with her troupe.
R K Padmanabh and Nandakumar too will be working on this project with us. That's the week ahead.