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» » How do you manage to bring an emotional
touch to your music?
Pooja - I have been a performing arts artist for long
and I feel no artist can perform until unless you love what
you do. The love for folk music made it possible for me to
emote in every song and definitely Rahul and Randeep's
compositions did the magic.
Rahul - Music is an intrinsic journey of each individual,
lots has been said and written about it, whatever little is
unsaid is music for me. So is the Project Antarman, to me
it is the unsaid portrayal of my mind, each composition
is unique and in contrast to each other, each song is
complete in its own.
Randeep - It's an interesting mix of different genres
of folk hailing from the land of Bengal and Assam,
since we the three of us hail from there, we tapped the
essence of the eastern sound in it. Usually folk for today's
generation is only making covers of traditional folk songs
but Antarman is conventionally original; leaving aside
Hobena and Gaanja – the songs as they are, so beautiful
that we had to give it our own interpretation but rest of
the songs are purely original, so for me anything which is
fresh and new always connects.
» » Every song from your self titled album is
unique and has it's own flavor. How did you
come up with such unique concepts?
Rahul - The moment we decided to create something
around folk music, it was quite evident that it has to be
creatively fresh and unique, the uniqueness lay in the
untapped sounds of the eastern India and the conviction to
create original content with the influence of folk imbibed
in it made each and every song unique in itself.

Randeep - We wanted to gift our audience with
something special and it was only possible if the
composition, lyrics and singing fell in the perfect place
and if each and every song if it could take you to the
unexplored territory of your inner world with your eyes
closed. In this album every song has a particular mood be
it Hobena depicting the value of time, Maati talking about
the urge to get back to roots, Gaanja signifying the beauty
of Lord shiva expressed in the traditional kaamrup form,
Marghat talking about the journey of life and death, Bairi
bindiya dealing with love in its innocent form while Tatar
Patar signifying deep Baul energy.
Pooja - It is very important to feel every bit of your own
composition and then present it to others. The thought
of our traditional folk forms slowly dying disturbs me a
lot. The whole idea of creating this album was to present
our original music form (folk) in such a sensitive way
that we can imbibe the folk energy beautifully with new
age musical arrangements. I guess, we’ve got somewhere.
The response of the audiences across the world has been
overwhelming and extremely encouraging to work more
on this line of thought.
» » What keeps each one of you motivated to
Life is such an eventful journey, it leads you to only create
songs and sing, that's what I believe.

Randeep - I agree with Rahul, motivation can be drawn
from anyone, anywhere just that you need to be aware of
it.

Pooja - I completely agree with both of them, everything
and everyone can influence and motivate you in your
music. I strongly feel as long as every element in this
lifetime inspires you, you will always be motivated to do
good music.
» » If there is a single person that has influenced
each of you, who would it be and why?
Randeep - It's definitely my guru my mentor Smt.
Haimanti shukla, I literally grew up on her music and she
has been the biggest inspiration in my life.

Rahul - For me musically it has been many people, be
it my Guruji Pt. Mani Prasad of Kirana Gharana, Lata
Mangeshkar, in fact me and Randeep are guru bhais, on
personal front it has been my mother, for her immense
faith and love for me.
Pooja - My father is responsible for whatever little I
know of music. I have never had the luck of having the
blessings of a guru in my life, my father has been my only
guru who gave me the right advice of listening to the great
masters of music as a child. And, the most important
person in my life without whom I could not have realised
any of my dreams of performing is my husband, Shankar.
He is truly the pillar behind Antarman.
» » What are your future projects like? Can we
await more such soulful music?
Rahul - Currently we are focusing on promoting our
latest album songs, we got tremendous response from
the audience during the launch of the album, we plan to
present a video for each song of our album. Tatar patar
our first song got tremendous response from the audience,
we have also recently, released one more video of the
song Bairi Bindiya, which again has met with a fantastic
response from audiences across India.
Randeep – Yes, lots more. Bairi Bindiya after Tatar
Patar has been getting amazing reviews from the listeners
across the world and we have just released its video.

Pooja - Apart from promotions and shoot of videos for
our songs, we are gearing up for a tour which we will
announce shortly. There is a lot more good music to look
forward to.
» » Your message to readers of the magazine.
Rahul - We have created songs which are extremely
close to our heart please do listen to them and keep loving
and keep blessing us. In this album we have made simple
music and songs which a commoner can easily relate to.
I would like the readers to buy original songs from our
album and help us grow.

make more music? Randeep – Yes, please do buy original album songs and
help us create more music.


Rahul - Motivation in music is a day to day
phenomenon, anything which inspires us, leads to create
music. In fact we draw inspiration from everything,
Antarman was inspired by Pooja's unique voice for one. Pooja - Folk Music is the origin of music and is
absolutely beautiful, my humble request to all our lovely
readers is please encourage folk music and folk artist
across and keep loving and blessing.
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