The Colonial Cousins Chat

If you missed the Colonial Cousins, catch them here. Unplugged.

p (Thu Nov 7 21:09:05 1996 IST):

hello!!!

Is anybody in yet?

Hello!!! every body.

HI Lezz Hari.. So what should we expect after you smash hit Colonial Cousins?

HI Lezz Hari.. So what should we expect after your smash hit Colonial Cousins?

I am waiting to talk with the musical-due!!!1

Hey Indi.. they are in so ask away...

Hi, people!

Hi folks, welcome to the Colonial Chat on Rediff - Hari

Hello Lezz and Hari!!!

Cousins: Another smash. Sometime mid next year. Await Krishna video end of this year.

HI Lezz Hari.. So what should we expect after your smash hit Colonial Cousins?

Have the Cousins arrived?

Hari.. Now that you are such a hit in the pop music world.. how about switching over completely?

Hi Ono, we just arrived a few minutes back. Ready to talk...

Hari.. Now that you are such a hit in the pop music world.. how about switching over completely?

I believe you guys have got too big for your boots now. What's the gas all about? Let us see how your next album fares, and if you are still hot, phir baat karenge!

Lezz and Hari: What brought you together to give such a good musical album?

Cousins: Variety is the spice of life. I love doing different kinds of music at the same level.

Hi Hariharan, I am karthick and relative of Hari who is living in New Jersey,USA. I have spoken to you in his marriage which was held few months ago at Mds where Mr.Sheshan also attended. Did you get me ?

Indi: A stray jingle and the hand of God!

I am a bit confused. Who's answeing the questions? Is it that putter from Matunga or the chappie from Mahim?

Hari.. come on now.. So you have another surprise for us.. er maybe do something in JAZZ????

Indi: We were destined to be together. Musically, and as people we get along very well. And this compatibility has come across in the album also.

Reggie: We've like to know if that's Elton John asking! Both of us are here and answering questions individually and together! :-)

Hi, how are you Kartik. Thanks for calling in. - HARI

Cousins: Hang on for the third album.

Smart, it is indeed me! Here, Bernie is here as well. I kinda like your music, but I donna if you will ever be able to do something better. First album is fine, but second album is the real test.

hello HARI, hi LEZ.

Reggie: Its both of us - the putter and the chappie - the Colonial Cousins!

Lezz..read about your mishap in the U S of A.. Did these guys beat you up deliberately to jeopardise your show or was it really a freak thing?

HI HARIHARAN AND LL

Hi John - I have attended your live shows in Bombay - and it's wonderful to be able to say hello to you. - HARI

HEARS YOUR CC IS A BIG HIT. CONGRATS

Hi John! I'd like to thank you for your musical influences on me, starting from Birds of Fire through Mahavishnu Orchestra through Shakti. Thanks a million!

I am doing good and I really feel excited to communicate with you. I am a fan of Jesudaas, Unnikrishnan and you. What do you think about the Tamil Film music nowadays ? As a avid fan of A.R.Rehman please share with me any exciting moments you had with him. I would love to hear from you. By the way I couldnt get the cassettes of Colonial Cousins in USA. EVERY CASSETTE SOLD OUT. CONGRATS ON THIS REGD.

Ene da/ Saukyam thane? It must be a relief that you have made it all this while after all the struggle. Incredible! Hari, hats off to it!

Cousins: It was the most unfortunate thing which could happen to anybody. God's grace we got out of it.

hari we love your voice here and your pronounciation in tamil! you rock hari

Mahavishnu - Thank you very much. Hope I come up with good music and entertain you in future.

Cousins: Forunately a freak thing and thanks to God and all the people who had faith in us, we are still alive and singing.

SORRY TO DISAPPOINT U GUYS... I AM NOT THE GREAT MUSICIAN, JUST A JAZZ LOVER.

How come you are ignoring my question? Lezz, if I aint mistaken, I once saw you play with Louis Banks at Sophia in Bombay. So mwhy the airs now?

Ok Lavanaya - I'll rock. You got it.

Do you plan to sing for your Indian films or is it just going to be discs?

hari what made you sing in movie songs like indira, and indiyan?

Karthick: Await my songs with A R Rehman in Anandam, Minsara Kanava. There was a great show of A R rehman at Malaysia last week.

Ono: This is the first time I'm on the Net. And I'm trying not to get confused. So, nothing personal, just a slip up. And its great to know that you've seen me play with Louis Banks before. If we had a video connection, I might recognise you. Love, Lezz.

What is the state of Indian pop music? On rediff, I hear names that sound so alien from so far away. Is Indian pop really that big? Or will it be a passing fad? Like the disco and ghazal crazes when I was growing up in India?

guys i cant wait to listen to your new album together.

tell, me L&H, weren't all the experiments to do an indian classical-western classical mix doomed to fail. after all western classical is harmonic progression and indian classical melodic progression. how could the concept of over hundreds of instruments playing in unison ever match with the jazz-like indian classical. WILL YOU VOTE FOR JAZZ AND INDIAN CLASSICAL INSTEAD?

Dear Elton: No plans to sing for films as yet. But there were no plans to form Colonial Cousins either.

Thanks, Lezz. Are you going to keep your choti and your knotted hair look for the next album or are you planning to get a new look?

Lavanya: I like the song from Indira. And I didn't quite understand your question.

John: Fusion is a combination of harmony and melody. And what better choice we could have had than the harmony of western music and melody of Indian classical.

Hullo! What do you think of the competition? How come you guys made so good when a group like Indus Creed has been slogging for so many years!

John: Jazz in Indian classical would have been a part of our first album but trying to reach out to the Indian masses, my job a a music producer on the album would not allow me to stretch too far too soon. Hopefully, you and I will do that jazz and Indian classical soon. Just let Colonial grow a little more popular.

Mahavishnu: It's growing but it will take time.

Hari and Lezz: Is all the struggle of so many years worthwhile? Do you think you would have liked it some other way? What would you have changed in your careers?

How did you guys meet? I am curious.

most of india's film music has its soul in the the indian classical music tradition, but sadly they try playing their muse with an orchestra and mess up things. most film music director seem to have the least idea about counducting. do you see this changing with your kind of music gaining propularity??

Yeah, tell us about your relationship? Are you pals in real life too? Do you fight? And who has the last word?

Photographs: Jewella Miranda

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