Rumbadoodle

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Rumbadoodle
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Studio album by Arun Shenoy
Released August 30, 2012
Genre Pop
Length42:52

Rumbadoodle is the debut studio album from Arun Shenoy. It was recorded across the world over the period of two years and was released on August 30, 2012. [1] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Pop album category in February 2013.

Arun Shenoy composer and record producer

Arun Shenoy is a composer and music producer of Indian origin, based in Singapore. He is best known for his Grammy Award nomination at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards for his debut full-length studio album Rumbadoodle. “Bliss”, the first song from his Indian Fusion project, and released as a single was featured on a worldwide Exclusive First Look on Grammy.com on August 26, 2013.

Grammy Award accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States

A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. The Grammys are the second of the Big Three major music awards held annually.

Contents

The album consists of 11 songs, which are individually named by a wide range of styles that are integrated into every song. Shenoy contributes all the proceeds from the album to an education fund for underprivileged people in India. [2]

India Country in South Asia

India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Composition

The album has a flamenco feel with fusion influences drawn from contemporary pop, rock and jazz. [2] While he himself claims to have more of a rock and roll background, he was fascinated by Flamenco from a young age, which drove him to try something unfamiliar. [3] Shenoy has cited Yanni as a major inspiration for the album. [4]

Flamenco genre of Spanish music; UNESCO intangible cultural heritage

Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia. In a wider sense, it refers to these musical traditions and more modern musical styles which have themselves been deeply influenced by and become blurred with the development of flamenco over the past two centuries. It includes cante (singing), toque, baile (dance), jaleo, palmas (handclapping) and pitos.

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily on the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical styles. Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rumbadoodle" Arun Shenoy, Ian Cameron, Glenn Sharp, Jonathan Wesley3:51
2."My Ballad Days" Arun Shenoy, Ramil Duke Purisima, Glenn Sharp4:02
3."Prance" Arun Shenoy, Ramil Duke Purisima3:58
4."Rock and Rigmarole" Arun Shenoy, Owen Gurry, Glenn Sharp, Jonathan Wesley4:46
5."The Violin Song" Arun Shenoy, Ian Cameron3:29
6."Fireflies" Arun Shenoy, Ramil Duke Purisima, Glenn Sharp, Jonathan Wesley4:28
7."Blue Sky Happiness Pt. I" Arun Shenoy, Owen Gurry, Glenn Sharp3:56
8."Blue Sky Happiness Pt. II" Arun Shenoy, Lonnie Park 5:10
9."Sleepy Town" Arun Shenoy 2:47
10."Wanderlust In Keys" Arun Shenoy, Glenn Sharp, Edward Roth3:49
11."Rhythm of the Sun" Arun Shenoy, Ramil Duke Purisima, Lonnie Park 2:36 [5]

Production and personnel

The Art Directors of the album included Roshni Mohapatra, who is also Shenoy’s wife. [1]

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
ZMR Charts [6] 4

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