What did you do musically through lockdown ? Did you release new music ?
I released new music . City Life was easily the biggest track out of the lot - sitting pretty at over 500K streams on Spotify and 200K on YouTube . I also released a live version of a song called Back to the Known , along with my Hindi debut Parchayi , a song I worked on with a music producer friend , Khwaab .
I also started a community of artists The Conemunity which initially started out as an Instagram LIVE . open mic but that ' s slowly evolved into weekly workshops and a monthly artist ' s showcase .
Singer-Songwriter
RAGHAV MEATTLE
Challenges you faced when recording your songs / making new music
I was stuck at my parent ' s house for the first six months of this lockdown , so recording new music was extremely hard . When things relaxed a bit , I borrowed a mic from a friend and recorded Parchayi . Things have gotten a lot easier and I ' m back to recording new music . I primarily used the lockdown to write new music - getting into the studio to record those songs soon !
How do you think the music scene can recover from the pandemic hit ?
I think we ' ve all made our fanbases bigger - it ' s no longer limited to just tier 1 cities . LIVE offline gigs are only a part of what we should do as artists , and the lockdown has reinstilled some of that for most of us . It ' s all about getting those fans you make online to now get them to watch your gigs offline and pay for tickets .
A few of the livestreams that I did , I played to audiences that I ' d never seen me perform my music live , so that ' s a big plus and hopefully , they ' ll want me to come to their city and play a gig for them once the scene reopens .
Overall , the entire musician community has been hit really hard , but we ' ll bounce back sooner or later !
What can we look forward to from you now ?
More conversations with The Conemunity .
I have new music lined up . Two songs that are in pre-production that I can ' t wait to go and record soon ! Those two should be released in March 2021 .
I have another Hindi collaboration with Hyderabad-based producer , Shor lined up for the end of this year or early next year .
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