for more time to work in a day. I don’t prefer doing one
thing over the other. Outside of work and regular practise,
I like practising the violin with amma. I like playing
percussions if I’m jamming with musician friends. I love
producing music and experimenting with new sounds at
night when everyone else is asleep. Basically it’s different
things in different settings someday, I will be able to match up to their level of
musicianship. Especially U Srinivas. I was extremely
saddened at the news of the maestro’s untimely demise.
He was in my list of dream collaborations. Another artist I
would absolutely love to collaborate with like most Indian
musicians is A. R. Rahman. He’s pretty much been my
biggest inspiration as far as music is concerned
You're a part of popular Indian bands. How do
you go about choosing the bands you like to play
with? Any project in the pipeline that you want to tell us
about?
I have to be sold on the music to get into it and do a fair
job myself. Then there’s the part where I actually have to
figure out if there is space for me in the band. The violin
as an instrument isn’t loud and can’t cut through heavy
arrangements unless the songs are designed to make it
possible. I have jammed with bands where the folks really
wanted me to play but the band sounded so full that it
didn’t really feel like I was bringing anything new to the
table and so I didn’t work with them despite the fact that I
really really liked their music.
I s there a band you want to be a part of and waiting
for the perfect opportunity to do so? Is yes, which
band and why?
Remember Shakti. Their music was study material the
first couple of years I started seriously learning music
haha. Still is. Every show is different and I hope that
This year for me is mostly about going back to the
fundamentals, polishing my violin-playing, revising music
theory and revisiting some old collaborations that, for
some reason, never got released. There are quite a few new
projects in the pipeline and some that I started working
on a year ago. One such project about to release soon is
this single that I produced a couple of months ago for
Shubhangi Joshi’s composition. There’s also a small series
of acoustic tracks that I’m working on for web release.
After Anand Bhaskar Collective’s launch of the second
album, Paradigm Shift is also all set to release a new
album this year. Also a couple of Hindi films that I had the
opportunity to work on are set to release this year.
Your message to upcoming and aspiring violinists
Focus on technique, form and expression right from the
beginning and listen to all forms of music with an open
mind and it’ll become really easy to find inspiration in
anything.
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