Classically Mild

Classically Mild
Studio album by Sonu Niigaam
Released	2008 (India)
Recorded	2008
Genre	Semi-classical
Label	Sa Re Ga Ma
Sonu Niigaam chronology
Chanda Ki Doli (2001) Classically Mild (2005) Rafi Resurrected (2008)

Classically Mild is a semi-classical album sung by Sonu Niigaam. The album was released by Sa Re Ga Ma on 11th February 2008, this being after a 3-year gap since his previous album Chanda Ki Doli. It was officially released on the stage of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs International, a children's singing competition on Zee TV which Sonu Niigaam was a judge on at that time. The album was officially launched at the hands of Sonu Niigaam's father, Agam Kumar Nigam, himself a successful Indian pop singer, as had his last album Chanda Ki Doli been.

The album is Sonu Niigaam's first official attempt at classical music. The music director is Deepak Pandit and the lyricist is Ajay Ihingran. While it was the former's first collaboration with Sonu Niigaam, Ajay Ihingran had received the UP Governor's Award for his first album, incidentally with Sonu Niigaam, the Hindu devotional album Sanskaar. Santosh Mulekar helped Deepak Pandit in the music arrangement and Pramod Chandorkar did the mixing for the album at Sonu Niigaam's studio.

The album has 8 tracks, each exploring a different spectrum of emotions, including love, loneliness, praising women, patriotism as well as spiritualism.

Sonu Niigaam describes the album on the cover as his "attempt to remind himself how far away (he is) from being a singer". He describes how hard he worked to achieve this level of perfection and how this was part of his efforts "to keep the student in (him) alive". He thanked all those who contributed to making the music and ended by dedicating the album to his then-newborn son Nevaan as his "Dad's gift of his honest labour" to him.

The song Soona Soona was the only one made into a video, starring Sonu Niigaam himself, shown in the video in the avatar of a Greek god. There were plans for videos for some of the other songs but they never materialised. The album was a commercial and critical success although it was not played much on radio stations at the time.

Track list

Number	Song Title	Length	Description on album	Raag used
1	Sochta Hoon Main	7:21	Celestial magic / Moments of truth / Maya	Raag Sindh Bhairavi
2	Bheege Bheege	6:24	Drenched in Ecstasy	Raga Ahir Bhairav
3	Soona Soona	6:04	The Homecoming	Raag Des
4	Suratiya	5:21	Submission	Raag Holy Kaafi
5	Chalki Chalki	5:16	Moonlight Twirl	Mishr Sarang
6	Dhanya Dhanya	7:41	The Woman An Eternal Enigma / An Ode to the Woman	Raag Maand
7	Lamha Lamha	5:59	Lashna / Celebration	Raag Bilawal
8	Aai dil mat ro	6:41	Viraha / Memoirs of another day	Raag Log Kauns