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Samo No Longer

WithoutYou - the Prelude

Sorry (beat by Onra)

Download Sorry here

oh. I also made an album some time ago.
Download it here

Color of Love Lies /coming soon.

Color of Love Lies

more 80's swagg

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

swaggggg

fuck finals

Last Year/ This Year

oh these dreams are forever.

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thanks for tuning in. I see you!
New music will be up shortly :D

Don't Look Down.

My close associate and good friend...(he's also my brother)
Ani Sanyal aka A-Live of Green Street Records recently put out there multi-billion dollar project, Don't Look Down on Warner Records. They have toured Japan, SXSW, with Wiz Khalifa and Lupe Fiasco, not to mention Curren$y , Nyle and some random people like Ayan Sanyal.

Let's talk about this album. I guess I might be a little bias, knowing a little about A-live, but I'll try to be as honest as possible. First of all, hip hop albums rarely have any continuity nowadays. This album is a real album, not just a collection of songs. It tells stories, has it hits, and each of its songs move smoothly.
They tell tales of being on the hustle, flying in through airports and trying to appreciate the beauty in life. It's almost like applying Thoreau to Radiohead's OK Computer. Rather than being sick of the modern life and having it drive them crazy, these boys enjoy that Sunday afternoon blunt and then go to work the next day.
There are some factual errors though, personally I don't my brother has ever flown first class on a tour. I think he'd probably feel too guilty using GS money when they could buy a new pair of headphones for the studio or something. Lol.

When I first heard this album, I was a little dismayed by the overall sound. It seemed to be drowned by synths, featured very few soul samples and generally got away from the old Green Street sound I got accustomed to. But music has to change and evolve, and what's wrong with hoppin on this new electro wave? lol Max and Ani are probably face palming as they read this. I mean, they bring it back on the All I See Remix (which in my opinion is the highlight of the album, so check it out), but the general synth and electro sound is pretty dominant throughout the album. In my opinion its a modern extension of Little Brother and Foreign Exchange. While Drake, Wiz and the other hip hop heavy weights bore over the same subject matter and try their hardest to think of catchy hooks that drunk people will sing in clubs, this underground type of hip hop is conscious of its lyrical matter and its hooks revolve around usually one thing: building that mo'effin dream.


This is think is where Don't Look Down really starts #winning and becoming a not your average hip hop album. If you look around at most 20 somethings, they have no idea what they want to do with their live. Some work menial jobs, others hide in grad school and people just wander aimlessly. I think this problem really stems from a fact that while academia and competition is stressed so much in this country, people have never learned how to dream. These boys know what they're doing and how to achieve it.

Another point. Some albums have that unexplainable setting vibe to them. Fleet Foxes debut sounds like it was recorded in the woods. Bon Iver's For Emma sounds like it was recorded in the winter snow. Vampire Weekend's debut sounds like it was recorded in Columbia. I don't know if these abstract associations are from hearing first or learning later, but Don't Look Down just has that distinct Brooklyn sound. Dunno how else to describe that.

ok maybe I'll write more later.
peace

Back

It's been a long last couple of months.
In between school pressure, personal issues, trying to find a job and future plans, I thought seriously about quitting music. But a picture is a thousand words, so this is what I've been up to:

















Death of A Love Song wasn't a failure or a great success, word to Borat.
Here is what happened:
- On February 14th, my Bandcamp exploded with around 1800 plays that opening week, but after that plays averaged to about 20 per week :(
- We sold 80-100 roses all around campus that day and gave out CDs for free
- As of March 29th, DOALS has gotten 190 downloads combined from bandcamp, mediafire and hulkshare

that's OK for a practically zero budget internet project where only one person was involved in the musical production(besides the artwork, mastering and website to which I give Courtney Markham, Green Street Records and Amrit KT infinite thanks for pulling through).

Looking forward, here are some things to expect in the future:
- Videoshoot for Umbrella For Two
- Youtube Channel
- Another EP - all new songs, maybe acoustic, maybe with some features

Links

DOALS Download http://www.mediafire.com/?z1kgy5ouo7cknqo
Stream:



Peace love and thanks for reading

Ayan

Death of A Love Song Info

Alrighttt just finished the preliminary mixes for Death of A Love Song. I still gotta tweak some stuff, and get these songs “mastered”…all about professionalism you know.

The album is a journey about finding, losing and defining this thing called love. It’s a cinematic experience through song and poetry that dances around indie pop and instrumental hip hop beats.

I mean, you gotta listen to it to fully understand. But if you liked any of these albums:

Radiohead’s OK Computer, Paul Simon’s Graceland, The Shins’ Oh! Inverted World, Beatles’ Rubber Soul, J Dilla’s Donuts, D’angelo’s Voodoo, Common’s Like Water For Chocolate

I think you’ll enjoy it. :)

Forget About It – the first single will be released soon!

- Ayan

Shuggie Otis

Just gotta say Shuggie is the MAN!
Like Prince, the dude plays everything on his albums.
I've been putting Inspiration Information on repeat.
Here it is:


On another complete random tangent.
Get this book:
www.amazon.com/Brain-Rules-Principles-Surviving-Thriving/dp/0979777704

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Not a Mixtape but a Mixed Tape

Death of a Love Song is not a mixtape in the traditional or hip-hop sense, but it does marry the two genres of pop songs and instrumental beats thus, a Mixed Tape.

Updated Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. Hella Beans
3. Can't Remember Her Name
4. Umbrella For Two
5. (Don't) Listen To My Heart
6. Wonder-Esque (Someone Like You)
7. Lucie's Lament
8. Forget About It
9. Dream Sequence I(Erosion&Doubts)
10. Dream Sequence II(Solution)
11. The Fantasy of Summer(and my misdirection)
12. Let's Hear That String Part Again Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Brooklyn
13. Death of a Love Song
14. Outro (Thanks)
(Bonus) 15. Untitled (What Are You Fighting For?)

AyanSanyal.com

New domain purchased.
Right now, it just redirects to the blog.
but there will be a site up soon, I am working with programmers and artists to get it up and running :)

Stay tuned, its only the beginning.

New Song: Paperback Writer - An Epilogue

This continues the story...



Early February is when Death of a Love Song will be released.
Peace.

Update: Death of a Love Song - 60% There...

I'd say I'm just a little over half finished with the album or EP (can't decide..what to call it).
Gotta finish some more vocal re-dubs, record one song, and then mix the entire thing.
The mixing process is the hardest because it's the least I know about and the most work...It's those little production tricks that make an album sound crisp and clean and professional.

I've been having this obsession with J Dilla lately...so the album was always going feature my delving into production, but now even more so. I'm looking at 4-6 instrumental songs in addition to the "normal" songs.

I wish I could just put everything I have up right now but that'd be no way to promote! I have a plan - and you'll see it in action soon enough.

The first song off Death of a Love Song will be Forget About It. Stay Tuned.

I Know It's Just The Season...

winter sucks.

Death of a Love Song

Happy New Years everyone! all the best for 2011
yuppp thats the title of the new album, and its coming out to be really concept-based.
its probably the craziest shit I've ever recorded.
Tentative Tracklist:

Forget About It
Wonder-esque (Someone Like You)
Umbrella For Two
Lucie's Lament
The Fantasy of Summer (and my misdirection) - ehh don't like that title
Death of a Love Song
Girl in the White T
Untitled (What Are You Fighting For?)
Unofficial Paramour
plus an assortment of skits and beats by yours truly

hopefully I can finish the recording and mixing process by end of Jan and have a free online release.
"Singles" will be release before.

on a completely different note - all Beatles fans check out the mono mixes, they're pretty sick.