AAVAAS

This album qualifies as a vintage AAA recording based on the recording technique used. It was recorded entirely in analogue format—on magnetic tape—and the entire album was mixed and mastered using analogue techniques that are now almost obsolete. This digitally sound-free album was recorded using another vintage tradition: one-take recording. All the music, including vocals, was recorded simultaneously in a single take. The present-day multi-track system was not used at all. The intimacy between the artists involved is believed to have been captured in this analogue production, created in this digital age.

Recording live in a ½ inch spool with a team of 20 musicians inside a small studio was a dream come true for Aavaas to live up to his concept of musical harmony of orchestral recording. At a simple count of a metronome, the 6-day long session had started for a grand finale. Four months of practice sessions by the violin students of Narayan Gopal Sangeet Kosh and further practices with other professional artists for weeks had flared up the sparks of this mini orchestra.

This album was composed for veteran singer Phatteman. Aavaas selected lyrics from different songwriters and created soft melodies for the singer. The composer used modern MIDI technology for music arrangement. After creating the music tracks, the instrumentalists overdubbed the sound using original instruments, and then recorded Phatteman's golden voice. The songs on this album are based on the typical Nepali style called contemporary Nepali music (Nepali Aadunik Geet).

Composer Aavaas, driven by singer Phatteman's unconditional love to the Nepali Adhunik forms and his own quest to revive this genre of music, started writing scores and arranging orchestration for the 'golden singer' and recording it using only acoustic instruments and recording systems.