Bangalore: The Czech Symphony Orchestra of Prague, Czechoslovakia, has contributed its mite to a kannada song that glorifies kannada and Karnataka on a kannada music album. The album titled ‘ananya aalaapana’ is the second album by the group Techies for Kannada and K Chords. The album with 7 songs will release on November 2nd.
The music is composed by Karthik Somanath, a technical architect at a major IT firm in Bangalore. The lyrics were penned by Karthik and Paawana Poonacha, a content architect. Poonacha, said, “The album is targeted at Kannada professionals living outside Karnataka. These people are exposed to a lot of different kinds and flavours of music. We also wanted to enhance Kannada music with a foreign orchestra,” explaining the need for the Czech Symphony Orchestra.
The Kannada patriotic song, Jagadalli Yelle Hodaru Moodada Mohaka Anubhava, is one of seven songs in the album. This is the only song in the album that will also be filmed as a video which will be released along with the album.
“Our first album had romantic songs. The idea is to show that life is beautiful.”and portray the different flavours of beauty. There are songs about nature, music, peace and brotherhood, love and friendship.”
“It was not easy to get a European orchestra. “The album is self-funded and we are looking for sponsors. The Czech orchestra came down a little on the money front. But it was still quite a bit for us to go there and get the music scored. We wanted the ‘first-of-its-kind’ element to be there and theefore went to great lengths,” said Poonacha.
The KChords team comprises IT and medical professionals translating their passion for music and Kannada into compassion for under-privileged schoolchildren in Karnataka. The proceeds from the album will go to the KChords Trust which will introduce music for under-privileged school children.
