Ukuleles, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, shakers tied to shoe laces and bass to ground – not a band, but a collective. More power to them, echoes Neel Adhikary! From the armpit of the Indian underground music scene comes a new
A student of one of the most prestigious institutions for music, Nischay Parekh’s journey is the stuff dreams are made of. From opening for Norah Jones to releasing his first album, produced by the legendary Miti Adhikari, these dreams have
Relatively new to the music scene, Kolkata based band Write in Stereo played their first proper gig at a recently concluded music festival. Riddhima Khanna caught up with the quartet in an interview where they talk about the burgeoning music
You started off in the 1990s with the BandishProjekt and have today gone on to create a one man army called Nucleya. Could you tell us a bit about the journey? When I was in school, my father bought
Heralded as “A fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” by the Star Tribune, Aakash Mittal is a rising star in creative music. A Creative and Performing Arts Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, he was in Kolkata recently leading a
You’ve performed for a variety of audiences across a lot of different continents, you run your own college for music and you’ve also created a lot of award winning scores for films. So how do you manage all of
A look at gay musicians struggling for an identity, writes Chiradeep Basumallik all we have “to do now , is take these lies and make them true, All we have to know now is that I don’t belong to you
But the ‘alternative rock’ he helped create endures, writes Todd Seavey…. When musician Lou Reed passed away in October, an entire branch of the rock n’ roll family tree lost a parent. If “alternative rock” is broadly defined to mean
July 12th, 2012 will always remain a red lettered day for Amitava (to be referred as Amita in the rest of the essay) Sarkar. For it marked the culmination of a journey, and also the beginning of a new one.
Be careful about what you put in your mouth. Can we really choose what we taste in a day? I think not. The earth is programmed to make us watch, hear and taste a wide variety of middle of the