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Mangaluru, Oct 5: On the 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma, when his importance is made limited to just cleaning the surroundings and not one’s self, when our nation is unable to define the modern notion of ‘nationalism’, when its citizens are struggling to describe their love towards their own country in their own way, here is a local boy Jaison Sequeira singing ‘This is an old love story without a name or a sign. How will the modern Romeos understand it?’ ‘Mera Desh’ is Jaison Sequeira’s first Hindi single. It revolves around ones love for his/her country. This love is condition less and ignorant of ‘nationalism’ or ‘patriotism’ of the present times. Instead believes in the truth and simplicity of the past.
Jaison had released his first Kannada single ‘Oh Chitteye’ in January 2018. He writes, composes, arranges music and sings his original compositions. This is quite rare in today’s world full of cover songs. He says ‘It is a busy life. But I make sure to give time for music as it gives peace of mind and some me-time. And when it is original, it is a different feeling’.
This production is unique because it tries to prove that quality lies in the composition and not merely in how it is produced, says Jaison. He adds ‘this I believe is one of those songs that stand on the purpose and not on the presentation as it is made with the lowest budget one could imagine’. Yet, Mera Desh will be streamed and available for paid-downloads on renowned sites like CDbaby, Apple iTunes, Saavn, Amazon Music and so on. For regional music enthusiasts, Paypassion Online Store will be distributing the downloadable copies. This is something new for regional artists as well as music lovers.
Mera Desh is written and composed by Jaison Sequeira featuring himself in the video of the song. The video is directed by Vinay HS, with technical assistance from Lohith Kumar and Deepak Naik of Caravan Art Studio. This is the same production team that produced Oh Chitteye. The video also contains footages by Vivek Gowda, Blink Films featuring Mangalore Horse Riding Academy and Sandesha, Mangalore. The audio was recorded, mixed and mastered by Rynel Sequeira, Sandesha. Multi-instrumentalist Reuben Machado has rendered flute and xylophone for the song.
Paypassion has been actively promoting the works of regional artists online. This production is released under its banner and in association with Caravan Art Studio. As the founder of this online platform, Jaison Sequeira urges the creative community to come up with original products and assures that Paypassion will help them with online solutions. The major setback for this passionate community is the lack of channels to get monetary returns from their work. Now, Paypassion is providing a platform to encourage general public to value original artistic material.
Paypassion Online Store sells books, ebooks, and music in both physical and digital forms, event-tickets and promotional merchandise. The Konkani speaking community has shown a warm response to this initiative and so far sold quite a few E-tickets for drama shows and downloadable music.
Jaison had appealed his audience on Facebook to pre-book ‘Mera Desh’ MP3 copies. ‘It was quite successful. Mera Desh is now a kind of ‘crowd funded’ single’ he says. To support this artist and his team buy the single on Paypassion Online Store and to watch the video song subscribe to Paypassion Productions.
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNwfZ2OG6SWsVl_YGgcfykg
Paypassion Online Store: https://imojo.in/buymeradesh