Hi all,
I'm thusara from the BNS studio's. we've been readint this thread for some time, and Bathiya his self had a big smile and didnt say anything each time I showed this to him, it pusled me as to why this was. At the end he told me that
"me mallilath hariyata ape parana misussu tika wage, kisima history ekka nodena, research nokara assumptions walata gihin kiyawanawa" and walked off. Then I checked with some of the past members of the group from 10 years ago. so here goes.
"Wasanthaye" is a sinhala version of BACH's "air from suite no 3 in D" and this is mentioned in the credits of their album Wasanthaye which was launched in 1998. and no where do BNS claim its their composition, and any where a song is not their composition they have mentioned it. for this you have to buy their original albums though to read these info. pirate copies dont have these. Thats the short sroty.
Now do you guys know that Ranga Dasanayake, Bathiya and Santhush use to work together during 1997 and 1998. During these days it was a very difficult environment for any new age artiste to break through. The classical artistes use to suppres them a lot.
Both BNS where studting opera music at mary anne davids school where they where preacticing this BACH's piece back then. during this time ranga and BNS did this track and just realsed this to see if any new age kinda beats will work in Sri Lanka, and boom this was the birth of the new age music you guys see these days.
history lesson part II will be coming up ya'll . .....