A young group releases a music album forging unity and happiness
Venkat Raman
Auckland, April 27, 2020
We have always promoted the power of the youth and the need to harness their energies and talents so that their positive vibrations reach across the world and today we are pleased to release a musical, single track album that bespeaks seamless energy of our young New Zealanders.
‘Moksha Base,’ a musical group of young men and women from Rotorua and Hamilton, initiated a unique project that explores and exposes the talent inherent among our younger generation, doing us and our own elders proud.
The eleven-member group should not be taken lightly as just melody-makers. Among them are high-end IT professionals, engineers, medical practitioners, consultants, accountants, biotech and biochemistry experts and other providers who keep the wheels of the economy moving.
About Cheru Meghamay
The album comprises ‘Cheru Meghamay,’ (Small Cloud), a Malayalam song that connects Nature and everything it offers- peace, confidence, satisfaction, tranquillity, stillness, the dynamics, and most important of all, universal happiness. If ever drop of water- from wherever it occurs, in this song, from rain- holds a flower, then let a million flowers bloom, leading to blossoming of lives with the fragrance of happiness, goodwill and understanding.
And the title cannot be more appropriate to New Zealand – Aotearoa- the Land of the Long White Cloud,’ that holds people of every disposition from everywhere.
Shankar Ramanathan, our own version of T M Soundararajan, S P Balasubrahmanyam, Yesudas, Hariharan, Haricharan, Karthik and scores of the modern singers, set the tune, challenging Aswathy Anand to write the lyrics.
Extolling goodness
I have witnessed the instant flow of creativity with Kavinjar Kannadasan delivering the lyrics to tunes set by Viswanathan-Ramamurthy within minutes. I am not sure how long Aswathy took for ‘Cheru Meghamay,’ but considering that the entire project was completed in one day- including orchestration and recording, it would have been almost instantaneous.
The lyrics extol the goodness in people, as indeed there is in every creation of God.
The song is a tribute to humanity itself. Here is a sample (in translation): “There is love and friendship in the air- it is everywhere; it rains and the Sun shines on this little flower; and like the honey in that flower, may your life be sweet, serene and joyful.”
Strengthened bonds
“The song captures the essence of our existence. It recapitulates the importance of family and the life around us. As we move out of Alert Level 4 a minute before the dawn of Tuesday, April 28, 2020 (New Zealand time), we would have realised how close we have become to our own families in our bubbles and with our friends, colleagues and relatives on virtual, audio-visual platforms over the past five weeks. This is the only (but the best) aspect of Covid-19. It has brought us all together as unified human beings,” Shankar said.
Aswathy deserves credit for her meaningful lyrics, mellifluous voice and calm and unaffected presentation and visuals of her home and the seashore with her husband and their only child, while everyone connected to Moksha Base will undoubtedly receive global applause for their superb presentation of this track.
The Artistes
The artistes of Moksha Base include, in alphabetical order, Abhishek Raj, Anjali Abhilash, Aswathy Anand, Bobby Philipose, Dalton Hargreaves, Dinesh Ravi, Joshua Shodavaram, Maathangi Krishna,
Shankar Narayanan, Shelin Shelz and Siva Kumar.
Indian Newslink hopes to feature each of them, in a future issue as ambassadors of love and friendship. They are among those creating a new World Order.
