Van Chitgo - The Art of Life

Advaita is a psychedelic fusion band based in New Delhi, India. As our name suggests, (an ancient Indian philosophy), the band has a spiritual dimension, which runs through our work.
Advaita’s musical soundscape is created by the interplay of the western instruments like guitars, drums and keyboards with the traditional Indian flavour of the Sarangi, tabla and Hindustani classical vocals.

We also add to this brew some experimentation with electronically produced sounds.

I promised to blog about this and im sticking to it. simply because brilliance of this nature should not go unnoticed and un-spoken of.
Advaita, an 8 member fusion-rock indian band comprising of ex super stars of indian acts such as friday the 13th and them clones; took the stage at the lodhi gardens restaurant last friday.
me and V made the effort after a fairly quick and intense 'knocking' session with my colleagues to rush down for it and boy was it worth the speedy gonzales routine:)
ujjval (extreme left in the picture- and vasu pointed out that he reminded me tremendously of the jaj master, the classical lead singer of the band (1 of 2 lead singers mind you) has trained for nearly 9 years and he was the cutting edge addition to the band. a great set comprising of instrumental pieces, indo-classical rock melodies and ending off with a gutsy remake of 'govinda' (kula shaker); i was screaming like a school girl through the entire thing. the rest of the crowd was more the middle age, post-work chillers so im sure my woohooing was a bit out of place. but ofcourse dC being dC didnt give a flying rats a$$, i can c these guys landing a great recording contract and first hands on their CD are coming to mua.

check out the songs available at the official website here and the next time they are performing (for the delhiites- this friday at IIT), get your rear in gear and get devoted..
the only downside? the band didnt mention a lot of the names of the songs, apart from the 4 I had already heard and sung along to multiple times, I could give my right arm (or maybe V's right arm) to acquire...advaita if you're reading, make it happen :)

many thanks also to doing delhi for letting me know about this in the first place. knowledge is power and power is rocking.
the indian rock talent diversifies and entertains. 

Posted by chitgo on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 9/19/2006 09:35:00 PM | Permalink