Suvarna's Star Singer runner up Manoj Vasishta cuts debut disc 'Tatva'

BENGALURU: Manoj Vasishta, who was first runner up in the 2009 edition of Star Singer on the Kannada GEC Suvarna, cut his first album - Tatva. Tatva, for the uninitiated, is the eternal poetry of the saints, unbounded by caste, color, time, space, and genre, which in short can be translated to philosophical poetry by saints.

Tatva has been produced by Manas Audio, a company that has been recently launched by the 25 year old Vasishta and music director Praveen Rao who created the original score for the album. The album was launched in February 2013 on Kannada news channel Janasri in the presence of legendary Carnatic classical musician Ganakalabhushana, R.K. Padmanabha, renowned lyricist H.S. Venkatesh Murthy and BKS Verma, a well -known artist.

Sales of Tatva are to commence shortly, since the Manas Audio founder duo passed it along to the critic circle for their take before offering it to the public. Recently, the album was recognised in the Freedom Radio Awards of Radio City, Benguluru. Part of the proceeds of its sales will go to the Heart and Soul Foundation.

"Tatva is not like the film music albums that have a shelf life of a couple of months. The seven songs in it are in different styles ranging from Hindustani classical to Arabic to Sufi to Quawali among others, each song has been done in a different style. There are classical music albums that are more than 10 years old and still available for the discerning listeners," said Vasishta to indiantelevision.com. Manas Audio is also scouting for young talented artists revealed Vasishta.

Manas Audio plans to launch another album ?Kaayo Yenna... Gopala? by Varijashree. Vasishta said, "Kaayo Yenna ... Gopala is an album comprising of 12 handpicked songs from the 350 sung by Varijashree for the show - Helavanakatte Giriyamma on ETV Kannada some time back. These songs have been selected by Praveen D Rao."