Originally Posted by
aakarsh
Interesting posts by KarlK. Firstly, welcome to KarlK!
I didnt know Uttam singh was doing the mixing as well. As far as I know, he was an instrumentalist in the bygone era and had been in the troupes of S.D.Burman, Madan Mohan, R.D.Burman etc, when he was a young chap. He even did the arrangements for Naushad's private album Aathwan Sur (he did a good job there). and I thought he was the arranger for Raaja's bombay-based recordings. I could sense Uttam singh's presence in Aur Ek Prem Kahani (Uttam Singh's vocals are also there) and India 24 hours.
It would be interesting to see if Raaja records in ARR's studio (believed to be the most advanced, in India) with his sound engineers .............. If only Raaja had such visionary technician with him, right from late 70s... we wouldnt have been talking this or craving for remastered versions now.
That said, I think recent recordings of Raaja are very good. The 90s batch of Raaja's music was the one that suffered a lot, i think.
KarlK,
Please continue sharing more trivia with us.