‘The Guitar Journal Volume One’ – Sidharth Kadadi

Mumbai’s founding member of Zygnema and lead guitarist Sidharth Kadadi is on a high. Besides heading one of the top hard core heavy /thrash/ power metal bands, Kadadi is now author of a guitar book that wannabe guitarists would swear by.

REMO - The Autobiography of Remo Fernandes

Remo fell in love with the sound of the flute from hearing LP records by Traffic, Blood Sweat Tears, and of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. It is no surprise then that Ian Anderson has showered praise to the Goan superstar on the cover of his book when he summarizes the book by saying “A story of brave dreams sand musical passions”

Khumaar – Bipin R Pandit

Bipin Pandit, the COO of The Advertising Club, launched his coffee table book about music titled Khumaar sometime back. The book was launched on the same day as his show Khumaar on 19th April 2013 at Savarkar Hall, Shivaji Park, Mumbai. Music maestro Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma of famous music duo, Laxmikant-Pyarelal launched Bipin Pandit’s book Khumaar. The coffee table book has 30 articles contributed by stalwarts from the Advertising, Marketing and Media fraternities.

Louiz Banks: A Symphony of Love - By Ashis Ghatak

Understanding of music, especially jazz, is not essential to enjoy Ghatak’s engaging book. The words entrap us in an atmosphere that shows love, adoration, admiration, and wonder for the person he is writing about.

Sebastian and Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers – T.M. Krishna

Thodur Madabusi Krishna, aka T.M. Krishna is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, writer, activist, author and Ramon Magsaysay awardee. As a vocalist, he has made a large number of innovations in both the style and substance of his concerts, thereby inviting controversy from some quarters.

Taj Mahal Foxtrot. 'A Story of Bombay's Jazz Age' - Naresh Fernandes

If you’re looking to know the history of Jazz in India, ‘Taj Mahal Foxtrot: A Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age’ by Naresh Fernandes is a must read.

Ghulam Mustafa Khan with Namrata Gupta Khan - A Dream I Lived Alone

When Namrata Gupta Khan got married to singer Rabbani Mustafa Khan, she had no idea how her life would change from being a customer service / sales executive with a telecom company, to an author of the book

Diamonds & Rust - Brahmanand S Siingh & Gaurav Sharma

Sometimes informative, sometimes reflective and profound, this music buff’s treasure-chest of RD Burman, reverberates with a musical feel of its own, into RD’s and perhaps all ours … lives, hopes, fears, insecurities, intuitions, creativity and the most compelling truths that we have somehow always known in all our hearts.

Khyaalon Ki Tapri – Meraj Hasan ‘meem’

The times we are living in is perhaps one of the most difficult eras in this century and hence asks for a little more to keep the life going. And what can that ‘little more’ be better than poetry and art.

Alankars - The Riyaz Manual - Ranjani Gehani

Alankars - The Riyaz Manual, compiled by singer Ranjani Gehani, is a musical knowledge book. It is a compilation of 2541 alankar/paltas/ swar patterns. A reference book, the ultimate handbook for riyaz/practice for singers and instrumentalists. All possible combinations of 1 to 5 swaras have been compiled into Paltas and presented in this book.