Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd.

infobox record label


founded = 2003
founders = Shubha Mudgal
Aneesh Pradhan
owner = Shubha Mudgal
Aneesh Pradhan
distributor = Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd. (India)
genre = Indian classical music
Indian folk music
Indian dance
Other
country = India
location = New Delhi, India
url = [http://underscorerecords.com/ Official website of Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd.]

Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd. is a music label and website that specializes in music from India. It contains an online music store where you can source and buy various genres of Indian music presented by different artistes. All copyrights for the music on the site rest in most cases with the musicians who made and recorded it, and hence revenues generated from sales also go almost entirely to the artistes (up to 80%).

Concept and Scope

Underscore Records is driven by the belief that a major part of music making in India remains unheard, untapped, unrecorded and unpublished. Several streams of music that coexist in the musically vibrant Indian society are not sufficiently represented in prevailing forms of dissemination, and many musicians continue to work silently despite the severe lack of proper and sustained patronage and recognition. Underscore Records creates a space for all forms of music, and for musicians to empower themselves by owning and choosing how to distribute their work.

Underscore Records serves the roles of producer and/or distributor. Underscore Records also makes available other music related material in the nature of books, papers, essays, articles, and photographs.

The company provides music from a variety of genres such as art/classical, folk and cross-cultural collaborative music, among others. The catalogue consists of audio and video recordings of both vocal and instrumental music, as well as lecture demonstrations and other educational material on music. Some of these recordings are archival or are made on location.

Underscore Records has a "Resources" section of the website where one can find links to other relevant information about music making in India.

Underscore Records Productions

These albums have been produced under the Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd. record label.

Sanchay: Bandish Sangraha by Ashok Da. Ranade (2007)
The Acoustic Keyboard in Raag Sangeet by Sudhir Nayak (2007)
Tabla Solo: A Continuing Tradition by Aneesh Pradhan (2006)
Living Music from the Past: Madhavrao Walawalkar (2006)
Kausalya Manjeshwar
Paavas Prasang by Shubha Mudgal
Unorthodoxies: Reimagining Meera by Kiran Nagarkar, Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan
Living Music from the Past by Kesarbai Kerkar (2004)
Kissa Punjab
Sitar Tasir by Fateh Ali
Rang Hori by Shubha Mudgal
Koshish by Shubha Mudgal, Merlin De Souza, Sudhir Nayak, Murad Ali, Benoni Soans, and Aneesh Pradhan
Romancing the Rain by Purbayan Chatterjee
Voice of the Sarangi by Murad Ali
Tabla: The Solo Tradition by Aneesh Pradhan
Ramrang: Celebrating the Music of Ram Ashreya Jha
Ram Ashreya Jha ‘Ramrang’
Khayal & Thumri by Shubha Mudgal (DVD)
Baajaa Gaajaa: Musical Instruments of India - 1 by Aneesh Pradhan (Book, 2008)

Distributed Artistes

These artistes are distributed by Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd. They include musicians, dancers, writers, and scholars.

Adrian McNeil, Ajay Joglekar, Ajoy Chakraborty, Akram Khan, Amanda J. Weidman, Amit Heri, Amritlal Nagar, Aneesh Pradhan, Anuradha Kuber, Artistes Unlimited, Ashok Da. Ranade, Ashwini Deshpande, Bapu Patwardhan, Basant Kabra, Bharat Kamat, Bharti Bandhu, Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, T. M. Krishna, Mythili Chandrasekar, Bonnie C. Wade, C.R. Vyas, Chaitanya Kunte, Channulal Misra, Chiragdin, Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Chood Khan, Chris Powell, Daniel Neuman, Shubha Chaudhuri, Komal Kothari, Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Devashish Dey, Dr Arawind Thatte, Dr. Geeta Bannerjee, Dr. Ram Deshpande, Dr. Shanti Jain, Dr. Subhadra desai, Dr. Suresh Chandvankar, Faree Ayaz al hussaini & Brothers, Fateh Ali, Ganesh Mohan, Gauri Pathare, Gert-Matthias Wegner, Girija Devi, Gurvinder Singh, Guy Strazz, Half Step Down, Hemant Pendse, Hygge, Ileana Citaristi, Illusion, Iqbal Bahu, Jagannathbuwa Purohit 'Gunidas', James Kippen, Jugal Kishor Petshali, Kalapini Komkali, Kausalya Manjeshwar, Kedar Naphade, Kesarbai Kerkar, Keshavrao Badge, Kiran Nagarkar, Komal Kothari, Krishan Lal Bheel, Lakshmi Shankar, Lakshmi Vishwanathan, Leela Karambelkar, Leela Karwal, Madan Mishra, Madhavrao Walawalkar, Madhukar Sadolikar, Madhup Mudgal, Makarand Kundale, Mallikarjun Mansur, Manjari Chaturvedi, Manjusha Kulkarni Patil, Merlin D'Souza, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Mohan Shyam Sharma, Murad Ali, Muralimanohar Shukla, Mythili Chandrasekar, Namita Devidayal, Nasir Zahiruddin and Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar, Nityanand Haldipur, Njeralath Harigovindan, Noordin, Pala, Pandit Amarnath, Prashant Kulkarni, Prashant Pandav, Purbayan Chatterjee, Purshottam Walawalkar, Pushkar Lele, Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar, Rajeev Taranath, Ram Ashreya Jha, Ramdas Palsule, Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa, Robert L. Hardgrave Jr., Stephen M. Slawek, Rupak Kulkarni, Sadhu Khan, Saeeda Begum, Sandip Bhattacharya, Sandip Chatterjee, Sanjay Wandrekar, Santosh Sant, Satyasheel Deshpande, Saudagar Ram, Savita Narasimhan, Seema Shirodkar, Shanti Hiranand, Shantilal Shah, Sharafat Hussain Khan, Shiv Lumba, Shobha Gurtu, Shubha Chaudhuri, Shubha Mudgal, Siddheshwari Devi, Suchita Parte, Sudhir Nayak, Sumitra Guha, Sunil Shanbag, Surjit Safri, Susmit Bose, T.M. Krishna, Tulsidas Borkar, Tushar Parte, Ulhas Bapat, Uma Dogra, Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha, Vidya Shah, Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Vishwanath Shirodkar, Wamanrao Sadolikar, Vivienne Pocha, Yogesh Samsi, Yousuf Saeed

The Company Team

"Co-director, Shubha Mudgal" is a versatile Indian performer who has received training from some of India 's greatest musicians such as Ram Ashreya Jha, Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, Vasant Thakar, Jitendra Abhisheki, Kumar Gandharva and Naina Devi. Awarded the Padmashri by the Government of India in 2000, she is acclaimed both as a composer and a performer, and maintains a keen and active interest in multimedia and Internet projects related to music.

"Co-director, Aneesh Pradhan" is disciple of tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh, Aneesh has gained recognition both as a soloist and an accompanist to vocal and instrumental music as well as dance. In addition to being an accomplished performer, Aneesh was awarded a doctoral degree in History from the University of Mumbai . A successful composer, Aneesh has also written on music and has been involved as a contributor to and editor for websites on Indian music.

"Web Design, Ani Gupta" studied Film production and Design, and Fine Arts in the US. He runs Metaphorm, his design company which has since been involved in creating websites for a variety of clients with diverse needs. He first collaborated with Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan in 1997 to set up Raagsangeet.com, one of the first websites on Indian music to be started by Indian musicians.

"Technical Development, Adarsh Kochhar" is a qualified Software Engineer and master's in Economics from BITS Pilani. He is responsible for database design, back-end development and support.

"Sales and Administration, Shantanu Herlekar" is a student of vocal music.

Footnotes

External links

http://underscorerecords.com/
http://podcasts.underscorerecords.info/
http://blog.shubhamudgal.com/
http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/

References

http://underscorerecords.com/