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Academy Award OST nomination and Indian classical music tradition rule music stands

The Very Best Of

Cher/Warner

Here's an artiste who surely Believes in her work. Fives decades into music and rocking, Cher became the oldest woman to score a chart topper in 1998 and to enter club-savvy contemporary collaborations, with producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawlings.

This rare anthology is also her first one to contain all her No. 1 hits, starting from her 1965 duet with Sonny Bono, pop successes from 80s and 90s featuring writers Diane Warren and Desmond Child and more.

Moksh

Amjad Ali Khan /EMI

In this cover of ragas and folk music from West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh, the maestro experiments with a new style by presenting ragas in relatively short compositions.

"A raga played for just five minutes can also be complete," he says. Khan has named each piece according to its mood, but stresses they are just guides according to his (or his sons') vision while performing the piece.

"They had beautifully lit up some candles around the recording studio and it created a magnificent inspiration. I just want listeners to enjoy the music and the feelings it creates without knowing any technical background," he says.

Wicked Little High

Bird York/EMI

Kathleen "Bird" York (of NBC's The West Wing among other cameos and starring roles) was approached by Paul Haggis and his co-writer Bobby Moresco to write the ending song for a script that would ultimately become the Lion's Gate flick Crash.

The song, In the deep, went on to bag Academy Award Nomination for original song while the film got nominated in several major categories, including Best Picture. Come March 5, Bird York will take centre stage with the number at the Oscar ceremony. Her major label debut with Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Madeline Peyroux), and Grammy-winning engineer/mixer Thom Russo (Macy Gray, Audioslave) that hits music stand this week features the track and also new original work from the artiste.

SYEDA FARIDA

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