Spin Cycle

An eight track album,the songs composed by Singh range from melodious to sufi to wedding numbers. “We have roped in Sukhwinder Singh and Kunal Ganjawala for the songs. For one of the sufi tracks,Anoop Jalota has lent his voice. I too will be singing along with him,” he says.

Talking about his journey that comprised many high scales and flat notes,Singh says,“It was never easy,for I had no training,no guru and no family background in music. I just nosedived into it for the love of it.” While Singh would spend hours in his ‘composing den’,making music,recording tunes,self learning instruments at night,he was working at a feverish pace on Punjabi albums to make ends meet. The result was a series of flop music videos and albums like Roop Kunwara and Ni Sohniye that could not even cause a blip on the charts.

Although he jokes about these,he was always looking to get out of the DJ console and become a composer. “As a composer one gets to express,create and make far better music,” says Singh,who left Chandigarh four years back to try to his luck in Mumbai. “In the Punjabi music industry,everything sounds the same. There is a fixed melody,and lyrics are just fitted in them. I was surprised when this one artist recorded one whole album with eight songs in one day! Punjabi music is easy to make,and to top it,there are copycats,” he says. Away from all this,Singh now takes each day as a new experience. Mumbai,he says,is a city of committed,professional people who know what they are doing,and while people make music in a day in Punjab,it takes a whole month to make a decent song in Bollywood.

With a fresh look at music,this singer-composer and rap artist is now focusing on some ‘peaceful’ sounding music. “Hindi film music is an intense job. One has to pay attention to the brief given by a director,and there is a definite song for each situation,” says Singh.

With a couple of other projects in his kitty,Singh is being hush hush about it all. In the meantime,he will soon come out with a sufi and a Punjabi hip hop album.