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concerts. After my 12th I
basically did that, I used to go
to concerts in the Evening. If
I was in some other college
far off, I would get home only
by 6 pm. As I was studying
in Satyabhama College I had
time to participate in the
concerts. I almost participated
about 1000 shows like this. I
was these Carnatic nuances
and everything, I’d probably
have to owe Rajesh Vaidya
because I had played 1000
shows with him over a
period of 8-9 years. A lot of
tricks I grabbed from that,
I worked with other artists
too like Drums Murugesh,
Valayapatti Mazharvizhi,
Bombay Jayshree, etc. I have
into lot of fusion, it’s been a
part of my music since 2001.
After academy, I worked at
Infosys for 3 years, then I quit
my work and took up music
as full time. This has been my
journey.
Navneeth: Ya I should thank
a lot of people, I should
thank Satyabhama, my friend
Ragini who gave me the
motivation to quit and come
out. I should also thank so
many people, I should my
friend Alap Raju for calling
me into his band. That is how
I got the band experience,
all the band which we see
today is probably Alap and
I started the trend at that
point, playing with singers
and rearranging stuff. At
that point, it was new and I
had been playing with my
friend Vasanth Anup Srijith
in a band caller Trinity. I
was paying with Trinity for a
while and these people went
to other countries and so I
started playing with Alap
and that’s when it started a
professional band career for
me.
MM: People say that
MM: Would you like to thank keyboard doesn’t have
anyone at this moment?
gamakam and even though
12
played they are said to be cut
notes. What is your reaction
to it.
Navneeth: Carnatic music has
also evolved these times, even
though modern instruments
are coming in. Of course,
every instrument has a
limitation, even in western
instrument the instruments
are restricted by range where
you can’t play base notes on
trumpet, flute has a restricted
range, guitar has 6 strings
whereas 7 note chord cannot
be played technically with
a guitar but the limitation
of the guitar is its beauty.
So, every instrument has
its beauty and adapting an
instrument to a particular
form of music, it doesn’t
have to be comprehensive.
It just has to be beautiful, it’s
my opinion. If I was a violin
player the way I see Carnatic
music is very different, if I
was a nathaswaram player
the way I approach a raga
will be different as well.