Instrumental
IAN CARDOZO’S MARIGOLD MARCHES [July 28, 2021] is a collection of five marches adapted from Vanita’s debut album MARIGOLD BALLADS with Ian Cardozo. These instrumental, experimental folk marches express the energy of human bonding, intense love of life, idealism, and sacrifice for the cause of peace.
The dedications and subtitles for the marches of this Album are Ian’s:
1. Too Young to Die
To Captain Manoj Pandey—the Gorkha Gladiator
2. Regimental Bonds
To the Gorkha soldier—Bravest of the Brave
3. The Unknown Soldier
Faithful unto death
4. The Marigold
Lest We Forget
5. Waiting!
To the wives and mothers of the soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces
Track Artist, Keyboard: Vanita Singh
Composer: Vanita Singh
Arranger: Vanita Singh
Producer: Vanita Singh
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2QKlQt4kFJQEwQpcqLFkjK
iTunes https://music.apple.com/in/album/ian-cardozos-marigold-marches-ep/1577565969
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n6J1icMs_rdbbo0_QdOqOVzaXA-dNP1HA
Amazon Prime Music https://music.amazon.in/albums/B09B29RT7J
KARGIL 1999 [June 26, 2022] As Ian Cardozo writes: "Kargil 1999 goes across the forbidding, freezing, windy trans-Himalayan border terrain of the Kargil sector, where snow, ice, blizzards, avalanches, lack of oxygen and sub-zero temperatures make survival next to impossible. Between May and July 1999, Kargil was major news in every newspaper and television channel, as Indian infantry soldiers fought back with astonishing ferocity against Pakistani Army troops and irregulars at over 15,000 feet, each step an agony of effort in gaining occupied ground and clearing the bunkers, notwithstanding coordinated Air Force support. With the Pakistanis forced out along the 168-km Himalayan ridgeline that forms the Mushkoh-Drass-Kargil-Batalik-Turtuk axis along the Line of Control, victory came for India at a heavy price, coloring the snow crimson on the Kargil battlefields. Leading their troops from the front, undaunted heroic officers like Lieutenant Manoj Pandey, Captain Vikram Batra, Captain Haneef Uddin, and Major Sonam Wangchuk were among those killed in action; many of the wounded were disabled for life. However, the Srinagar-Leh national highway and India’s lifeline to Ladakh and the Siachen Glacier were no longer endangered."
Music in this video
Track Artist, Keyboard: Vanita Singh
Composer: Vanita Singh
Arranger: Vanita Singh
Producer: Vanita Singh
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2aUvZPvEc