entertainment

Misty perform in Chennai

Mahes PERERA

Enjoying considerable success in the current music scene is the group Misty whose rise has been quite phenomenal. The band is led by vocalist Rajitha Rupasinghe who has steadily earned praise for his entertainment skills.Misty has become synonymous with Trans Asia and continue to be featured on Thursdays at the Library.

You can catch their vibes at the R+B on Wednesdays and enjoy a relaxing evening listening to their sound on Sunday evenings at the Cinnamon Grand. “We had a successful 2008 and we hope this year will be as good or even better”, comments Rajitha.

“We’ll be playing for the much awaited Valentine’s Day on February 14. This is the annual romantic dance organised by Bishop’s College, titled ‘Oh What A Night’ which will be held at the Cinnamon Grand.

The band Ultimate will be also playing with us. But before all that, we are off to Chennai on February 6 for a performance on February 7 at the Chipauk Stadium for the annual MCC Club Night.”

Other significant dates for the band are in March when they will playing for the Architects Ball at the Galadari on March 7 and the popular Joe-Pete Cricket Ball at the Hilton on March 9.

Misty with its distinctive sound comprises besides Rajitha, Dennis Alwis the drummer, Sanjeewa Hettige bass and vocals, Mangala Weerasekera - guitar, Udaya Welikala - keyboards/vocals and Mangala Perera - keyboards, sax and vocals.

Shaheena - BNS’ latest beauty

Shaheena the latest album by Bathiya N Santhush was launched in an exclusive tie up with Lux Beauty Brand that has a history of teaming up with beauty queens and film stars as their Brand Ambassadors.

In a three month promotional campaign the album will be available to music lovers in an album cum promo pack at an unbelievable price. `Shaheena’ says Bathiya “contains the spirit of all our work in the past six to eight months.

The album contains the hit singles and the lead track of the soundtrack of Asai Mang Piyambanna and also the sound track from the latest movie Feel My Love (Adare Namayen)”. The music singles are all BNS originals and according to Bathiya he hopes more brands will extend themselves in promoting the production of Sri Lankan New Age music.

Santhush commenting on the release of Shaheena said, “the album contains the best songs we did in 2008. The CD is for the Sri Lankan market and is like a single release but contains about eight tracks.

After the three months promotion by Lux there will be a re-release later on may be in April or May which will contain some of these tracks and will include two CDs together and we’ll be calling it 5th Album.

While we are working on our 5th Album we’ll be working on an English album as well for the Australian market containing our original compositions.

We have more surprises for our fans which will become a reality soon.”Shaheena the album apart from the title track which is a Lux edition contains Hitha Naambara Thaleta, Gum Nade, Kasthuri, Rung Rung Gaga, Feel My Love, Oya Mage Nam, Madu Suwandak, Pathu Pem Pathum and a reggaeton Kasthuri. Bathiya and Santhush can count over 350 live performances globally in the past five years alone and so Shaheena needs to be on your CD shelf.

M.P.

Musicians soiree

The time has come around today when musicians get-together to entertain you with their artistry that is varied creative and impromptu.

Many leading musicians will be performing from 1.30 p.m. onwards. The opening set at 1.30 p.m. will see pianist Hilary Christie with Lalith Fernando - vocals, Shanthi Seneviratne - drums, Granville Gomes - bass and Uraj Amarasekera - percussion in a program of traditional swing. The Trio after the opening set will be led by Kumar de Silva - piano, Rodney Van Heer - sax, Duleep Gnanakan - bass, Christo Prins - drums with Jean Van Heer - vocals.

The featured band performing at 4.00 p.m. will be led by Harsha Makalanda - piano with Gavin Senn - saxes, Shiraaz Nooramith - drums, Thivanthi Perera - violin, Timal Jayamanne - bass and Rasman Lye - percussion.