Annesley Malawana released his new cd ‘Kiyumbulatha’ for the season. Annesley last released a CD in 2006 to commemmorate his 40 years of music. After 5 years he has come back with this new CD which will be appreciated by all his fans and music lovers of 70s. He has made it a point not [...]
By Lasith Fernando Hello reader, my old friend. I have come to talk to you again. You know, reading the stories and exploring the lives behind some of the craziest rock stars to walk on God’s earth is almost as fun as taking a peek behind the dressing room curtain of a Victoria’s Secret fashion [...]
I can hear tubas. Am I about to die? Death. The final frontier. Composers have not been scared to confront it (in their music at least). From Mahler to Wagner, from Mozart to Fauré, they have conjured up visions of the beyond, and the results are anything but morbid. The special, death-haunted radiance of the [...]
Almost every performer or composer I have met cannot stomach hearing their own recordings – even when they are the best you could ever hope to hear. Why not? Talking to pianist Richard Goode for this week’s Music Matters, he said something to me that seemed to take self-deprecation to new heights. I asked him [...]
There is to be Doom Over Colombo in the month of February, as what they call the pinnacle of Sri Lankan Heavy Metal bands come together. The event is set to take place at the Women’s International Hall, on the 11th of February, 5PM onwards. Tickets are priced at Rs. 500 per metalhead. Bands gracing [...]
Book Review By Ranjan Fernando Victor Ivains latest analytical work Lankawa Galawageneema is a timely, readable book. In essence, he surveys our recent history, contrasting the struggle for Indian Independence led by giant statesmen such as Gandhi, Nehru, Patel etc with our puny politicians of all hues who, like now, were merely jockeying for power. [...]
By Sharni Jayawardena This slim easy-to-read volume of 72 pages, about the resettlement process for the Southern Expressway, published by the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), is an eye-opener. Many of us reap the benefits of large-scale infrastructure development projects, without really thinking about or understanding the sacrifices that have been made by the people [...]
Exploring Another Earth By Kamal Kalidasa To call Mike Cahill’s Another Earth science-fiction would be akin to calling a tomato a vegetable. It’s scientifically implausible and factually incorrect, but, at the same time, it is not so far off the mark that it refuses to make sense to the average person. Calling a tomato a [...]
Agneepath – the Indian Hindi action thriller produced by Karan Johan is now on at the Liberty. Hrithik Roshan plays the lead and Sanjay Dutt plays the role of the main antagonist. Priyanka Chopra plays the leading female role. has received several positive reviews from critics. In a small Indian village Mandwa, lives Vijay the [...]
By Lasith Fernando On July 6, 1957, John Lennon’s amateur skiffle group, the Quarrymen, were playing a tiny church picnic when he ran into Paul McCartney. And while they may not have known it at the time, by agreeing to start jamming and writing a few tunes together, Lennon and McCartney laid down the foundation [...]
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