The Raghu Dixit Project’s self titled debut album features 8 songs that were painstakingly put together over the past 12 years. Each song is unique in its own way and is best experienced!
Hey Bhagwan (Hindi)
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This one is a baul-singer-of-Bengal-meets-Bob-Marley kind of song! A huge hit among the crowds because of its likeable chorus and groove, this song requests god, ironically, to give a blessing to live this wonderful life once more despite all its difficulties, materialism and despair! A song of hope…a song celebrating life.
Mysore Se Ayee (Hindi)
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Raghu’s most wanted track – it goes back to a place where Raghu came from – Mysore. The song playfully describes the charm, innocence and beauty of a young girl from Mysore. Its folksy tune and rhythm makes the audiences get up on their feet and dance … every time!
Gudugudiya Sedi Nodo (Kannada)
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Raghu’s rendition of one of the poems written by Saint Shishunaala Sharif, a 19th century spiritual poet of North Karnataka, South India. Shishunaala is popular for his simple metaphors to explain intricate philosophies of life. This song urges the listener to smoke a Hookah (a smoking pipe) to understand how one should lead life! Open the small cloth bag called mind, pull out the hash called greed/lust, crush it in a chillum called faith and light it with a fire called intelligence, Smoke that Hookah, he says.
Ambar (Hindi)
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Every single one of us searches for this amazing concept we term, ‘perfect love’! some find it, some spend their entire life time in its pursuit. Ambar is a song that speaks about such a ‘perfect love’ and how we thirst for it.
No Man Will Ever Love You, Like I Do (Hindi-English)
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A passionate love song sung in a Rajasthani (West India) folk style, the lyrics of the song were written in collaboration with a Hindi-Urdu poet Deepti Musley, based in Bangalore.
Soruthihudu Maneya Maaligi (Kannada)
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“My roof is leaking … with ignorance”, the singer laments! A famous song written by Saint Shishunala Shareif, this song has seen many versions rendered by many singers of Karnataka. Raghu’s melody attempts here to give it a blues guitar feel on the latino beat!
In Mumbai, Wating for a Miracle (Hindi-English)
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This is what it would probably sound like if you catch a folk singer from a country side, put him into a local train of Bombay and ask the Beatles to back him up! The song describes Bombay as a city of dreams where thousands come and get lost in its arms in search of glory and wait for that miracle.
