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Dark 'UB
40' comes live in Sri Lanka The top reggae band 'UB 40' will come alive in Sri Lanka for one off concert on December 14 at the Parliament Grounds at Sri Jayawardenapura. This world famous band will be in Sri Lanka on December 10 and the Lankan tour is organised under the auspices of Ministry of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. "Sri Lankans in Harmony" is the name of the concert to be held at the Parliament Grounds and 'UB 40' will be the main attraction and Gypsies with Corrine, Ronnie and show team will be the local counterpart of this concert. The name "Sri Lankans in Harmony" is given to this concert to boost the present peace process. This eight member reggae band will leave Sri Lanka on December 15 for their tour in East Asia. 'King
of Sri Lankan Calypso' : Noel on CD The new album
contains the all time hits of Noel Brian Ranasinghe, making it a
number one promotional item for Sri Lanka, with songs such as "Welcome
to Sri Lanka", The Kandy Perahera", "Cricket Lovely
Cricket", "Ayubowan", "Peace Love Freedom Unity",
"Hoiya Hoiya", "Vinode Gamane", "Tharuna
Jeevite", "Malee and any more with instrumentals like
Calypso Baila and Kaffringna Baila. This is the first time two Latin
American melodies(Calypso Baila and Kaffringna Baila) to make it
an album full of variety, full of rich quality music. The pulsating
rhythms of "Kandy Perahera" with many drums used for the
recordings by Nesan Thyagaraj, to the sounds of guitars, oboe, percussions,
and three parts vocals by Noel himself makes it enjoyable. Noel
was also responsible for all the vocals in most of the songs arranged
by him, including the adaptations to two other melodies. Music backing
was by Stanley Peries and "Fortunes", Jagath Wickramasinghe,
Rohana Weerasinghe, Kithsiri Fernando, Rolinson Ferdinando, Ranjith
Perera, Nesan Thyagaraj, Rajive and the Clan. "If not
for Rajive forcing me so much to do, a recording the album would
not have become a reality," said Noel. Sri Lanka already
famous for its cricket, and other sports, will come on top of the
music world with so much very good talent available over here. Noel
hopes that "Sony" - E.M.I. and others would tie up with
our local publishers to give our talent worldwide exposure. "Our own Kaffringna (Baila) Calypso, and beat music is of a very high standard, all it needs is exposure", said Noel, who is now looking forward to doing many recordings in the future. Christmas
with Chandimal This is his
first Christmas CD and sixteenth CD from the "Second Connection". This has ten
tracks including one Sinhala original Christmas song. Chandana, Elsworth
and Dev of the "Second Connection" have done the vocals
and Chandimal has done the music tracks for the CD. "Chandimal
and the 2nd Connection" is also going to have a song along
musical show on the November 30 at Bishop's College Hall. This is
going to be the band's first sing along show. Sokan, Nimal Jayamanne,
Anil Bharathi and Dalreen will be joining with Chandimal in doing
the show, with Channa Upuli dancers and Latin & Ballroom Dancing
items. According to Chandimal, "The 2nd Connection" will be in action at Blue Water Hotel for the 31st Night dance this year. |
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