Music·Art·Science
Lights down. Phones up. Every big stage starts with one song and one voice.
Bibek Rana is a Nepali singer-songwriter with five singles out on every major platform, plus a painter and sketch artist.
“Kasai ko yaad, Kasai ko Saath.”
Bibek, on Sadhana Chahana
Official lyric videos from his YouTube channel, plus every single so far.
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2021No dates announced yet. Follow on Instagram to hear first.
Song videos and covers, front row.
Clean, glossy pop with R&B smoothness: big hooks, light falsetto and grooves that sit just behind the beat.
Piano, a huge chest voice and nowhere to hide. Proof that one honest take can fill an arena.
Names only, to point you toward the sound. Go listen to the originals.
From the stage lights to the lounge after midnight.
Songs engineered to fill stadiums: huge hooks, chant-along choruses and power ballads with lighters in the air.
Glitter, platform boots and a stomp. Theatrical and catchy, with crunchy riffs.
Riff-first and loud, with blues roots, wailing vocals and long solos.
Every section builds to one massive chorus, sometimes with a key change for the last lift.
Low lights, soft swing, smoke-curl melodies. Background music that rewards listening.
A dance-hall wall of brass trading riffs between sections, swinging hard.
Songs that move the story forward, from the 'I want' song to the full-company finale. Show Boat (1927) and Oklahoma! (1943) shaped the modern form.
Drama told entirely through song, with an orchestra in the pit. The first big landmark is Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607).
Nepal's 'modern song': poetic lyrics over lush orchestration, popularised on Radio Nepal. Narayan Gopal is remembered as its great voice.
Velvet seats. The overture starts. Here is what's on the bill.
Masks, a chorus and open-air hillside theatres. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides competed at the festival of Dionysus.
A thrust stage under an open sky (the Globe, 1599). Few sets: the words paint the scene, and boys played the women's roles.
Song, dialogue and dance carrying one story, from Broadway to the West End.
Bold kumadori make-up, frozen 'mie' poses, a runway through the audience (hanamichi) and revolving stages.
Founded by Kan'ami and Zeami: carved masks, slow precise movement, chant and a painted pine on a bare stage.
A masked Lakhe dancer with a red face and wild mane leaps through the streets to drums and cymbals, especially during Indra Jatra.
The body tells the story: mime, movement and dance first, words second. Jacques Lecoq's Paris school (1956) shaped it.
Titles and composers only. Every one is centuries-old public domain music; find a recording you love.
Four music games that run right in your browser. Turn your sound on.
Train your ear: hear a chord, then name it.
Streak 0Rare and beautiful instruments worth a look. Illustrations are stylised; tap through to see the real thing.
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The white-and-gold Falcon. Hollow body, Bigsby, pure stage royalty.
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See priceView on Reverb ↗A capo that is basically jewellery. Swappable fret pads.
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The arena is empty and enormous. One kick drum echoes for a whole second. The crew laughs at a bad joke over the talkback, someone tests a mic with “one-two, Sadhana”, and for a moment the empty seats feel like they are already singing back.
Every show starts with a piece of paper taped to the stage, songs in thick black marker. By the encore it is soaked, stepped on and torn. A kid in the front row asks for it. That setlist, crumpled and perfect, is worth more than any trophy.
Shoes off, ears ringing, a tray of cold noodles. Someone puts on a quiet song and the whole band goes silent. That is the real afterparty: ten people too tired to talk, sharing one song after twenty thousand voices.
Before the spotlight: the real work.
Long shifts, heavy lifting, teamwork and timing. The discipline that keeps the music going.
Painting and restoring classics: Volkswagen Beetles and other VW classics, Mustangs and racing cars, plus furniture. Patience, prep and a perfect finish.
Precision knife work, speed under pressure and respect for the craft.
His project: an atelier of hand-crafted candles with delivery across Nepal. A website, not an app.
Sales at Bihani Traders.
Marketing for Beautyxo.store.
Hollywood, the awards race, Grammys, new music and music business, plus Nepal disaster updates. Every story links to its original publisher.
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An exhibition of original paintings by Mr B. Tap a frame to view it on Instagram.
Tap any frame to open that painting on Instagram. All artwork is Bibek's own, from @bibekranamusic.
Original short poems written for this site. Tap a painting or sketch above to find more paired with the art.
Pink tubes buzzing on a rainy wall, a high score blinking just to make me stay; the jukebox knows the chorus of my youth and plays it like it never went away. Insert a coin, insert a little nerve: the neon swears the night will never fray.
Chrome horizon, violet sun, a cassette rewinding the stars; we drive where the grid meets the sea with the radio tuned to our scars. Faster than yesterday, softer than rain, the city glows pink in the mirrors of cars.
When the phones rise up, they make a sky, a constellation singing every line; for three short minutes no one is alone, your heartbeat keeping time with mine. The lights come down. The chorus stays, a star you carry home like wine.
True, documented findings about the brain and music.
Just hearing a steady beat activates motor areas of the brain, even when you're sitting still (Grahn & Brett, 2007).
Part of the pleasure in music comes from the brain predicting what comes next and enjoying the surprise when a song bends the rules.
Your eyes have three types of cone cells, and every colour you see, neon pink included, is the brain blending their signals.
Singing, dancing or moving in sync with other people is linked to feeling closer to them.
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For any inquiries and work, email bibekrana585@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @bibekranamusic.