Music to your ears

There is music.

And then...

there is MUSIC.

Ten years ago we were blessed with a very special wedding reception that our parents held for us in Mussoorie.

The venue was the dining hall of Woodstock School (in its humbler avatar), which was redone as a mini-shaminah. We were surprised with a colourfully decked up cycle rickshaw and had a drummer and a band of guests dancing ahead of us (quite something for Sheba who had been nurtured in a Bakht Singh fellowship)...

And then we had music. Amazing music performed with deep love by our friends Chris Hale and Peter Hicks.

Pete on guitar and Chris on Sitar - Photo shamelessly swiped from the Aradhna website

At that point in time Aradhna - of which Chris and Pete are the backbone - was just getting underway.

Today the twosome can look back on a decade-worth of melodies - mainly mining and extending the rich tradition of Hindusthani devotional music - but focussed on celebrating the humble King Yeshu Masih.

I hope that our gentle readers of this blog will have at least one Aradhna album on their comp or ipod or whatever music delivery device you use. You can always delve into their music by checking out their website - http://aradhnamusic.com

Up in Mussoorie - safely stored with our hoard that our parents are keeping for us - is a small treasure. An instrumental piece that Aradhna wrote for us and recorded on a small digital recorder which was a break-through novelty then. They then presented us the piece on a cassette tape which was what we used in those days. We hope Mum still has a working cassette player in Mussoorie to play this treasure on...

Music resonates with the very beauty of God.