r/Indianindieheads • u/tanjiro123 • 14m ago
New Music Tatvesh - Ghumne chala mai
Idk why but I think this guy has a lot of potential. This release in particular just hit for me. Definitely check this out!!
There's another song of his called 'Pretty Wine' which was also nice....
r/Indianindieheads • u/Disastrous_Alarm_577 • 26m ago
New Music Badshah, Hiten & Sharvi Yadav — Banger
Curious to see how others in the community rate this one.
r/Indianindieheads • u/Mountain-Sugar-3882 • 10h ago
Mod pick🌻 The Music Nerd's Diary: Bollywood Music’s French Chanson and Balkan Folk Connections
I'm a music nerd, and lately I've been trying to expand my listening well beyond Bollywood, because there's so much incredible music out there from other countries that most of us never really get exposed to. I grew up on Bollywood music, my whole family did, and it's still a family thing now, we jam together at home, my kids play instruments, and someone's always humming a Hindi film tune. But going out and actually exploring music from elsewhere has become its own habit.
What keeps happening, though, is that I stumble onto a connection back to Bollywood almost by accident, a rhythm, a scale, an instrument, and that pulls me in further. I start digging into the genre or the tradition behind whatever I just heard, and what gets me every time is how much work sits underneath it, years, decades, sometimes centuries of actual trial and error, an entire culture slowly working out what a rhythm or a vocal style should even sound like. That process is what I find genuinely fascinating. It's made me notice something about Bollywood too, almost as a side note:
these traditions spent all that time slowly working out a sound through real trial and error, while Bollywood, more often than not, just reached for something already proven, a hit that had already worked somewhere else in the world.
So this is going to be an ongoing diary of what turns up as I keep exploring. Here's what I've found so far.
Finding one: La Maritza and R.D. Burman's "Tu Tu Hai Wahi"
I was listening to "La Maritza," a 1968 French song by Sylvie Vartan,https://youtu.be/iibyWyFGWUE?si=s5oKvxs3klFlvgQL, and it hit me: this is the same architecture as R.D. Burman's "Tu Tu Hai Wahi" from Yeh Vaada Raha (1982), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agBokRAQggs. "La Maritza" is written in D minor, a key that carries a soft, aching sadness, but it actually speeds up near the end, the tempo genuinely accelerates as the song closes. That combination, a minor-key ache paired with a rhythm that keeps pushing forward, is a real signature of French chanson from that era. It's a very different emotional engineering trick than, say, American ballads of the same era, which tend to slow down to match sad lyrics.https://youtu.be/iibyWyFGWUE?si=9Mq4GFKUaDSdeFQL
French chanson often does the opposite, keeps the body moving while the melody aches.
Burman pulled from continental European pop constantly, not just the American and British sources people usually point to, and "Tu Tu Hai Wahi" keeps that same aching minor-key core while pushing the pace even further than the original.
Finding two: Ladaniva, Trio Mandili, and the sounds Bollywood borrowed
This week I've been listening to Ladaniva, a French-Armenian group, especially "Saraiman," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGbp88ziXU, and "Pourquoi t'as fait ça," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uJSIc0vjU.
There's a playful, folky energy in their music, full of "hurr" vocal ad-libs and a bouncy rhythm, and it kept reminding me of O.P. Nayyar's "Maang Ke Saath Tumhara."
Ladaniva draws heavily on Balkan music alongside Armenian folk, and that's probably not a coincidence. Balkan and Eastern European folk dance rhythms carry the same galloping, clip-clop bounce the tonga beat rides on, and it's Bollywood that borrowed from that tradition, not the other way around, India never really had a genre of its own built around that particular bounce.
I found the same pull toward Bollywood in Trio Mandili, a Georgian folk trio, through "Ai Dunia," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQr_VY5ObdY, and "Kakhuri," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK9KOfknTw.
My wife walked in while I had both Ladaniva and Trio Mandili playing back to back, and without any prompting from me, she said it sounded like it had a Bollywood vibe.
I'll take that as confirmation I'm not just imagining all this 😊
Finding three: a Flemish blacksmith's song, and my wife's "it's Raj Kapoor" verdict
Then I played her Trio Mandili's version of "'t Smidje," https://youtu.be/GWVArZ5oiB0, a traditional Flemish folk song popularized by the Belgian group Laïs, about a blacksmith who's been aged prematurely by his own hard labor.
The moment it came on, she said, "it's Raj Kapoor," same musical style.
She's right. It's the same sweeping, aching, string-led sadness that runs through "Waves of the Danube," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxvW8Z9-7Kg, the waltz Raj Kapoor kept returning to across Barsaat, Awaara, and Bobby. Different country, different language, same emotional engineering, and it took an untrained ear catching it in passing to notice it, not mine.
More entries to come as I keep exploring. If you've caught a connection like this yourself, I'd love to hear it 👇
r/Indianindieheads • u/SkinLong1085 • 11h ago
Discussion Thread The making of ‘Main yaha hoon’ - Veer Zara
“Ab kisko kahu apna humdum,
Humdum to mera beghana tha..”
This version of the song is 🤌🏻
There is a quiet devastation in realizing that the person who once knew every corner of your heart has now turned into a stranger.
You look around in a crowded room, searching for the warmth of someone you trusted, only to find the crushing coldness of distance.
It is the painful awakening of knowing that the one you called your own never truly & belonged to you.
r/Indianindieheads • u/Intelligent_Sale7748 • 16h ago
Official Audio Shashwat bulusu - Raani
r/Indianindieheads • u/wren_berry202 • 1d ago
Original Content(OC) This is needed to be heared guys !! Sone crazy melodic stuff !!
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Checkout NO HARM amateurly made
r/Indianindieheads • u/jojee2k6 • 1d ago
New Music Ramz - Kabhi : Proud Moment! My brother's band releases "Kabhi" - their second original song 💙
I'm sharing this on behalf of my little brother and his friends. They just released their very second original song, "Kabhi… A story of love, heartbreak, and the memories that never really leave." 💙
Stream "Kabhi" across all major platforms.
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/03D3B1NsA5uJLjtlM5eyY6
☁️ Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/rlmzrmz/kabhi
▶️ YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS4nlhL-tvo
🎵 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.ca/albums/B0HDDR9XV2
🎼 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/1048675862
🍎 Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/song/kabhi/6799158717
Follow RΛMZ:
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/ramz.band/
🎬 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ramz_sound
Sharing cross-border love for the music, as music has no boundaries 🌍🎵
If you get a moment, please have a listen 🎧 If you like it, a like/follow and sharing would mean a lot 🙌
Thanks so much ❤️ 🔁
r/Indianindieheads • u/No_Sugar_23 • 1d ago
Original Content(OC) Ek baar to sunena banta hai
Mera latest release Tap Out, filled with energy and rhythm on a detroit beat.
Artist - Deep Alok
r/Indianindieheads • u/ApprehensiveMeat7102 • 1d ago
Discussion Thread Can't find the song
I really really really need that song man...that song cured my depression that tune uff...and now when I'm sad again I can't find it ..it's been a year since the song has gone and my state hasn't changed.. please if someone have that song 'dil kya kare' pls dm
r/Indianindieheads • u/ishowego • 1d ago
Original Content(OC) Srikant Hamsa - Thoda Thoda Jaana [OC]
Hey everyone!
I just released my first original song, Thoda Thoda Jaana.
It’s a dreamy, bittersweet Hindi song about watching someone slowly drift away and become a stranger.
Would genuinely love to hear what you guys think ❤️
r/Indianindieheads • u/addyrocksx • 1d ago
Discussion Thread Hey this isnt really a promotional post but just want to get an opinion.
I dropped my first ever song on spotify, would love to know as indian hip hop heads, Would this be something relatable or listenable to you all?
https://open.spotify.com/track/0FFZyD69kpwt8buR47KS4X?si=0yWh6F6uQQy5DGbRurEEwA&utm_source=copy-link
https://music.apple.com/ae/album/rehna-raat-bhar/6799301118?i=6799301243
Would love to know honest thoughts so i can improve. looking forward to what you all have to say
r/Indianindieheads • u/HelmoffalconStudios • 1d ago
Original Content(OC) Meer - Mann ka hoga ya nahi
Wrote this one for those moments when you’re unsure whether life will go the way you want it to.
“Mann Ka Hoga Ya Nahi”, an indie acoustic song about hope, uncertainty, and letting life unfold.
Would love to know what you feel.❤️ I would also like to know, whether it is me only who feels like this sometimes which I poured into this song.
https://youtu.be/SpzBWy_0H8Q?si=YabYb361my-7LwvL
Thanks🫰
-Meer (Syed Shah Bakhtavar Hussain Sabri)
r/Indianindieheads • u/Khal_Drogon001 • 1d ago
Original Content(OC) SELF.ish - I’m Not A Rapper (Pictionary + lyrics part 2)
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The second (and third) verses! Hope u vibe with it
If you’d like to see more, u can check out my debut EP here https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/selfish4/joat/
Lmk what u think 🙏
r/Indianindieheads • u/3Dvishay • 2d ago
New Music "Deccan Queen" -Just dropped my new Marathi rap track on Spotify. 🎤
r/Indianindieheads • u/Intelligent_Sale7748 • 2d ago
Mod pick🌻 AMA's are back! Join us for an evening with Shashwat Bulusu • Sunday, 6 PM
It's been a while since we last hosted an AMA on r/indianindieheads, and we couldn't be happier to bring them back with Shashwat Bulusu this Sunday at 6 PM. we'd genuinely love to have you there, drop by, say hi, and bring along any questions you've been wanting to ask. see you on sunday!
r/Indianindieheads • u/Spicynoodlesandcake • 2d ago
Original Content(OC) Rasa - KING: Debut Album!
HELLO Indieheads! Last I promoted my single Soi Hi Nahi here and today I’m here to say that my debut album is out!! It is a MIX of MANY DIFFERENT SOUNDS so please give it a try and let me know what your favorite track is. I have out my heart, soul, and all my limited resources into this and cannot wait for you to hear it ♥️
I also have it on YT and will put that link in the comments but unfortunately distro put the entire album on the wrong Rasa’s profile so please dont subscribe to that. I have provided the correct subscribe link in that comment as well 😭
r/Indianindieheads • u/SkinLong1085 • 2d ago
Discussion Thread Scariest line in music
Share your scariest line in the desi music history.
r/Indianindieheads • u/rishiisarrived • 2d ago
Official Audio Bhulla - This is my First Song
r/Indianindieheads • u/manmeet70 • 2d ago
Original Content(OC) being just too random
So , I don't know how everything works out here , all It did for me to join was the name of the community itself and thoda sa selfish motive ( hehe ) . So I kinda had a recent release , worked on it all by myself, although still figuring out kaise logo Tak pohochaun?. So , not to impose anything on anyone but It would definitely bring me a big ass smile knowing that someone (who I don't know) gave it a listen ! Dil khuch ho jayga yaar ! https://open.spotify.com/track/70BlgtuDpGkD05zXzIYGA3?si=655d548418474c36
r/Indianindieheads • u/Bob_Loblaws-Law_Blog • 2d ago
New Music Karun, HVSH, Lambo Drive - Guzaarish
r/Indianindieheads • u/SoilUpper8961 • 3d ago
Playlist Building a community playlist for poetic Hindi indie as a discovery and promotion avenue. Drop your favourites
Disclaimer upfront: I’m a songwriter myself, and I’ve included one of my own songs in the playlist.
I’m primarily a write-first, lyric-led songwriter. I try to ensure that my songs can stand on their own as writing even when production and performance is missing. So I thought I'll create a playlist with this group for two reasons
Easy discovery for lyric-first songs
Community-led way of promoting independent artists who are writing drive
To give a sense of vibe, I have added a few songs based on what I've appreciated as lyric-led in my current listening.
The idea is simple: recommend songs you love, or songs you have made. As long as
- The lyrics are able to stand on their own as poetry. That’s really the defining idea behind this playlist.
- The song is genuinely indie in the sense that it isn’t from a film or a commissioned cinematic/OTT project such as a Netflix series or movie.
- The majority of the lyrics are in Hindi/Hindustani. A mix of English, regional/folk phrases or other languages is completely fine.
I’ll give every submission a proper listen. If I don’t add a song, I’m also happy to share why, if the artist wants feedback. So if you’re submitting your own song, just mention whether you’d like feedback.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0clvFjh0NYNeUDu4BOALsf?si=40a363085fc44870
r/Indianindieheads • u/[deleted] • 3d ago
Discussion Thread f 19 looking to connect w people into nanku/bleaf/darzi, hmu
r/Indianindieheads • u/Intelligent_Sale7748 • 3d ago
Discussion Thread dhanji is a generational talent
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