Album: Live Earth
Artiste: Various
Available on: Warner Bros

On July 7, 2007 as many as 150 acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts called, ‘Live Earth’, a 7-continent, 24-hour music event staged in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg to raise awareness for the climate crisis.

The one CD and two-DVD package includes performances from top artistes. The CD contains 15 songs such as Madonna (Hey you), Foo Fighters (Times like these), The Police (Driven to tears), John Mayer (Gravity), Roger Waters (Another Brick in the wall Part II), Linkin Park (Bleed it out), Bon Jovi (Wanted dead or alive), James Blunt (Wisemen), Beastie Boys (Intergalactic), K T Tunstall (Suddenly I see).

In DVD 1 you get to see performances from Genesis (Invisible Touch), Paulo Nutini (What a wonderful world), Black Eyed Peas (Where is the love), Duran Duran (Planet Earth), Metallica (Sad but true), Dave Matthews Band (Too much), Kelly Clarkson (Sober) and Joss Stone (Right to be wrong) among the 21 songs recorded live.
DVD 2 has 15 songs including Keith Urban and Alicia Keys (Gimme Shelter), Enrique Iglesias (Bailamos), Missy Higgins (Steer), Wolfmother (Woman), Lenny Kravitz (Are you gonna go my way), Smashing Pumpkins (United States), Rihanna (Umbrella). There is an interesting version of “La Isla Bonita” by Madonna which features Gogol Bordello.

Album: Maestro in concert
Artiste: Hariprasad Chaurasia
Available on: Sagar Music
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, the flute maestro, performed for Pandit Gururao Deshpande Sangeet Sabha at the Gymkhana Hall, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on February 9, 2008. He was accompanied by Pandit Ravindra Yavagal, a popular tabla player from Bangalore and flute support was provided by Chaurasia’s disciple K S Rajesh. This concert has now been recorded and remastered by Bangalore-based Sagar Music.

Chaurasia begins with a long piece of over 45 minutes in rag Jhinjhoti, which he plays in the unusual nine-beat mattatal.

Next comes a medium tempo composition in the introspective raga Saraswati in madyalaya dhrut in teental. He wraps up the concert with a composition in Pahadi Dhun, a melody that evokes the hills.