MUKESH AMARAN
ALBUM ARTicle
DEBJYOTI
SAHA
1. Hello, a little bit about yourself and your background in arts and music?
I am a Visual Storyteller. I studied Animation Film Design
at NID Ahmedabad. I am a fond believer in the magic
of Animation Storytelling and enjoy all things motion.
Like many artists, I want my work to pan across various
directions, styles, platforms and narratives. At this time of
experiment, I simply am in search of interesting work.
2. At this point in your career, what role did music
have to play in you getting to where you are?
Good work resonates, no matter where you come from. My
connection to Hip-Hop dates back a few years in a different
form of the same genre. Back in my school and college
days I and a bunch of friends would take Breakdance (an
element of Hip-Hop) quite seriously. That's when I was
introduced to this genre of music. We would listen to them
all the time. With time, things started getting more serious,
I started to develop a knack of other things, and now I'm
here; but what stayed with me throughout is the music.
3. Tell us about your collaboration with Seedhe Maut
from conception to creation and the end product.
Honest confession: When Seedhe Maut first got in touch
with me on Instagram, I thought it might be some fake
profile. This might have been too hard for me to believe
that Seedhe Maut actually got in touch. They shared with
me a sample of their song "101" and a brief idea about it. We
wanted to keep it Desi. We wanted something Hard. Thus,
came the idea of the two of them, Calm and Encore, driving
an old Contessa across a Delhi Highway, escaping a band
of cops, cash flowing out of their stuffed car. They were
quite happy to see a rough draft and we rolled with it.
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4. What are your thoughts on how other art apart from
music is perceived in our music scene? (Like visual
arts, album arts, photographers and the likes)
I believe, in the digital world of music, everything is
quite visual. An album art gives the music a visual
identity. Just like one song is different from the other
in terms of narrative, flow, composition and style, it
needs to be catered to differently. A good artwork (static
or video) only adds to the visual identity of the music
and does justice to what the music has set out to do.
5. Tell us a little bit about the process that is
involved in making a piece by Debjyoti.
Every work of art is different and thus, treated
differently. There's no fixed way of approaching a
project. Usually I start off with a brief idea of what the
song is about and what is the artist's thoughts on it.
Then, we try to understand how the song makes us feel.
Once we stumble upon an idea that does justice to the
vibe and the content of a song, we go ahead with it.
6. Tell us about your art style and the concepts behind your artworks.
There is no particular style of work I limit myself to. But
there will be an emerging pattern in my work if we look into
it, definitely. Most of my work deals with people; what they
stand for, how they feel, where they come from and where
they go, how they act and react. I think across platforms,
that is what I'd like to stick to. Eventually, whatever we are
doing is to understand us and our environment better.