River Records Studios witnessed its first 'big' recording with the 20-member choir, ‘Indian Choral Ensemble’, directed by Kalyani Nair and Karthik Manickavasakam. The choir recorded Karthik's original composition 'Postcard'.
It was a beautiful experience to listen to the harmonic depth of Postcard rendered by this talented bunch of singers:
Sop 1 – Aparna Harikumar, Kalyani Nair
Sop 2 – Sushmita Narasimhan, Deepika Karthik Kumar,
Alto 1 – Sriradha Bharath, Nidhi Saraogi
Alto 2 – Fathima Henna, Deepthi Raghu
Tenor 1 – Pranjal Thakore, Manoj Krishna, Sudharsan Ram, Shridhar Ramesh
Tenor 2 – Manikandan Chembai, Aditya Ganesh, Arshith P Kurian
Bass – Riddhiman Dutta, Ragu B, Neeraj M Selva
The recording took place in Studio C, our 20-ft high ceiling recording room while Studio A was used as the control room. The sessions were conducted by Karthik Manickavasakam and supervised by Aditya Ravindran. Sean Bout, our Chief Engineer set up and recorded the session.
We were overjoyed to receive the testimonial below from the artists at the end of the sessions.
Photos and footage credit: Y.E.S Studios
Postcard is currently in the final stages of post-production. Keep your eyes and ears out for the release!
You can follow Indian Choral Ensemble on Instagram at @indianchoralensemble.