Week 1 - Dualist Inquiry

I found this guy on Tehelka's mini-series called The Music Project. His name is Sahej Bakshi and he is based out of  Delhi. The song that he plays on the Tehelka show was just really really really funky! He uses a pre-programmed pad and a bunch of other shiney looking computer things to get a really happy and heavy techno sound. Here give it a listen yourself:

Now you might say, what's so "Indian" about this? Well firstly the guy is Indian =D. But more importantly, I think that his music reflects a very real and relevant part of urban cities such as Delhi or Mumbai. Even the dude looks like he's a Delhi product and he has been through the "mall-iffication" of the city, and I don't mean that in a negative way. I just mean that he's seen it.... whatever don't hate!

Anyway, he has a website which you can get to over -> Here, and he has a bunch of music on Soundcloud.com which you can get to over -> Here :D. I think he would be really fun to see live, even if he's just playing a set in a club or at a lounge.

So Dualist Inquiry definitely makes my Big Board for the time being. Check him out and let me know what you think.

Comeback Post

Hello all of the three readers of this blog. To be fair, it has been dead for a while. But what's not been dead is the Indian music scene. I have found a resurgence of Indian rock music in my music library and what a better time to restart the blogsterbation.

Originally, this space was to be used so that I would be forced to explore the world of Indian influenced/produced music. When I first started out, I didn't really know where to look for the good music, and I would often just randomly search youtube and the web. It turns out that a lot of Indians are quite lazy, and the average life span of a band in India is about as long as a summer monsoon.

So I have changed the intention of The Indian Reverb completely. I want this space to reflect the best of what Indian musicians have to offer, and I will be exploring not only the classic Indian bands of the 80's and 90's, but I will also take a look at bands that have come out with really good albums recently, and are being proactive in the local music scene.

Since I am based out of Toronto, expect to see posts about Indian musicians performing out of the Sub-Continent, and probably within North America.

So without further ado, I give you the reborn Indian Reverb, and hopefully this time around, I will be able to engage you at a much higher level and we will be able to explore the rock, pop, folk and any other genre of music that India has to offer.

Cheers,

Udai.