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Featuring Amit Trivedi on the cover, MaatiBaani as our Band of the month this issue is 60 page treat. Read on for the latest on Rock, Electronica, Carnatic and Bollywood music.
This month we review a slew of desi electronica, Lifafa with 'chudail-step', Samved's twist on the classic Hindustani and sultry, party-mingling music courtesy The Bartender. Follow me as I introduce you to the nostalgic landscapes of Tajdar Junaid's newest indie album and the familiar bars of alt-rock by Black Letters.
Mind-altering bhakti rock, minimal electronica to rock you to sleep, instrumental progressions from a dream world, a confluence of Hindustani and jazz and a rude awakening to 20’s throwback with electro-swing; this month’s Indie Reviews are a coalescent cauldron of traditional-twists and the unconventional.
In an industry as vast as ours, it's just as easy to overlook certain exemplary artists as it is to find wonderful ones. There is one such breed of musicians that has been cropping up undetected under the surface: our child prodigies. Musical reality shows cater to only a certain brand of vocalists, and our pianists, table maestros, and western vocalists find no place on such stages. We undertook to showcase the talent of a few such young musical geniuses. Read on, and be awe-struck!
For a woman, to be a musician already requires a fair measure of mettle. The women we speak about in this article, however, take it up a notch with their titanium wills and untamable spirits. With this segment we focus your attention towards some such empowered female musicians that everyone should know about... just because.
Everything about the Storm Festival, Bangalore, in one post.
"After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right..." ― John Coltrane If you've ever seen the Chronic Blues Circus live, you would certainly agree with Mr. Coltrane. When the bars of rhyme ring through the guitars and mingle with the brass tone of the sax, you feel it alright...