Jan 12, 2020

Dhrupad (a quest for the soul), making its slow but steady comeback

Dhrupad, the oldest form of Indian classical music, owes its origin to the chanting of Vedic scriptures, the Sama Veda to be...more

Aug 20, 2019

Rudra Veena – It’s the time for it to be rediscovered

The Rudra Veena is one of the very first instruments to have been introduced to Indian classical music. ‘Rudra’ is another...more

Jul 21, 2019

Wind Instruments, blowing with trailing tales

The name ‘Bansuri’ comes from the word ‘banse’ meaning bamboo. In India, the bansuri or the flute is known by...more

Jun 21, 2019

Music Therapy – Healing through rhythm and melodies

In an interview, Bob Marley had said that music had not made him rich but life. But the audience is always large...more

Mar 17, 2019

A village swims all the time over music, The Music Village of Bengal

Dadpur village in Dhulasimla Uluberia, has become a counterintuitive dreamland for the masters of Indian classical music. Not...more

Dec 02, 2018

Mukto Das: Every subject needs Guru, be it musical instrument playing or making

Mukto Das comes from a rich tradition of the percussion instrument Tabla. His great-grandfather was a renowned Tabla maker...more

Nov 17, 2018

Pt. Santosh Banerjee: Hardly any Guru left in Indian classical music

Pandit Santosh Banerjee was born in British occupied India on 24th November 1931. He came from a...more

Jul 29, 2018

Instrument making, the Sitar…cold backstories of Indian classical music

One of the most popular Indian classical instruments, the Sitar has a rich and complex heritage. Having its origin dated...more

Jul 19, 2018

The Esraj story, the evolution through Bishnupur gharana and Tagore

The esraj, also called the Indian harp, is a string instrument found in two forms throughout the north, central, and east regions...more

May 09, 2018

Spanish Veena: A new member in Indian classical music family

Over the last few years, with the emergence of new technical advancements, the creative art has witnessed a conscious attempt of...more

Apr 25, 2018

ASHRAM, a mash-up of Indian Ethnic Melodies with Electronica

The Ashram project, which tries to interpret songs from the Indian sub-continent within a soundscape that is...more

Mar 03, 2018

Carsten Wicke: Every instrument is the voice of the instrumentalist

Carsten Wicke, a Rudra Veena player and manufacturer, who lives in Kolkata, India, was born and brought up...more

Jan 26, 2018

Acharya Jayanta Bose: A confluence of art forms into music

Acharya Jayanta Bose is a versatile singer, musician and composer of Bengal. Hailing from a family of renowned musicians...more

Nov 29, 2017

Pt. Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, contemporary forever

Considered as one of the greatest performers of Khyal in India, Pandit Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay was born on...more

Oct 17, 2017

Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya: Sliding Indian Classical Music on Guitar

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya perhaps holds the unique position in the world of Indian Classical Music, in terms of instruments as well as...more

Aug 30, 2017

Alla Rakha Kalawant: Sarangi, the closest musical instrument to human voice

AllaRakha Kalawant is one of the most recognized names among the contemporary Sarangi players in India. His basic training was...more

Aug 08, 2017

Tanmoy Bose: In search of a soundscape to reach youth

Tanmoy Bose is one of the most eminent Indian Classical musicians of the contemporary era. Besides being a...more

Jul 11, 2017

Naba Kumar Kanji: An artisan behind the art of playing Sarod

Indian Classical Music, with its rich repository of musical gems and a long heritage of practice, has also been a global phenomenon. Keeping in mind their immense contribution, this worldwide appeal of...more

Jun 14, 2017

Pt. Jyoti Goho: Listening more than playing with harmonium

An Indian Classical musician of highest order, Jyoti Goho is widely renowned for his Harmonium accompaniment. He had his initiation in the hands of...more

May 20, 2017

The Travelling Archive: A sonic journey taking a vertical plunge into Time

Moushumi Bhowmik is one of the most significant artists to emerge during the 1990s. A singer-songwriter par excellence, she is known to perform...more

Feb 10, 2017

Gopal & Madhu Barman: Making own independent space with Shree Khol & Tabla

Gopal and Madhusudan better known as the Barman Brothers, took their baby steps into the world of music almost at a toddler stage ...more

Jan 08, 2017

Harekrishna Halder: Dreaming Shree Khol to be appreciated as an individual instrument

Harekrishna Halder is considered to be among the most acclaimed exponents of Shree Khol in contemporary times.more

Dec 15, 2016

Somnath Roy: Striking a common thread in Hindustani & Karnataki

Somnath Roy is one of the rare classical music artistes who started out as a versatile North Indian musician and then seriously pursuing South Indian percussion more

Jun 01, 2016

Understanding, feeling and fusing….

Contrary to the puritan and traditional Indian way of looking at fusion, Jonathan Kay perceives it in the logic of appropriation and enrichment. Hmore

May 07, 2016

Kalikaprasad: Folk forms struggle to survive

Kalikaprasad strongly emphasizes on the point that for any art to endure, the artiste needs to survive.more

Apr 28, 2016

Shayne Hyrapiet: Connecting women ensures success in gigs

For Shayne Hyrapiet, the passion largely gripped him when he started singing in church choir during high school and began participating in the inter college competitions. more

Apr 22, 2016

Reworking 90s’ Band magic @ Independent Music remains orphan

As a band, Rollywood is highly influenced by the ethos of Bangla Band music of 1990s, which set them on their musical journey. In the course of itmore

Apr 04, 2016

Kaushiki disagrees @ Gen-Y lacks interest in classical music

Kaushiki Chakraborty simply lashes out at the mere suggestion that the cotemporary generation lacks interest in Classical Music. more

Apr 02, 2016

Rita Ganguly: So-called acting training doesn’t work in film

Rita Ganguly, famous singer-dancer and ex-teacher at National School of Drama (NSD) has a deep interest in films as she feels that cinema is the most powerful art form of the time incorporating every other existing form of both performing as well as plastic arts.more

Mar 16, 2016

Venkatesh Kumar: Climbing social ladder with Classical Music

Looking back at his initiation in classical music Pandit M. Venkatesh Kumar feels that music doesn’t have any divisions in itself. However theremore

Mar 07, 2016

Pandit Shankar Ghosh: Maestro shared with Kaahon

An exponent of the Farukhabad Gharana had for over five decades regaled audiences both in India and abroad with his unique baaj (style) of playingmore

Feb 21, 2016

Debojyoti Bose asserts on playing music, not the instrument

Debojyoti Bose sees no reason why one has to learn playing Sarod from another Sarod player; a musician doesn’t learn an instrument, learns music.more

Feb 03, 2016

Subir Roy demonstrates various flutes@local and global tones

Flautist Subir Roy gives an enlightening presentation about his instrument of choice in a musical event called Mehfil supported by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) recently.more

Jan 22, 2016

Acoustik: Growing with the city, growing with R&B

The music played by Acoustik can be called folksy R&B, according to Klein, Chris and Shreya. more

Jan 04, 2016

Anik Dhar holds for being rigorous in the age of easy music

According to Anik Dhar, music has turned out to be an experience of sound, produced largely by applying certain modern technologies.more

Dec 23, 2015

Silajit teases: Tagore is safe cultural buffer for Bengalis

Silajit is a doubtless oddity in Bengali music. Despite his apparent casual demeanor and disregard for conventional practices, Silajit feels nothing but absolute reverence when it comes to Rabindranath Tagore. more

Oct 26, 2015

Spontaneity is the driving force of Kendraka’s music

Making his strict aversion for the term fusion quite clear, Bumpy declares that Kendraka can only be described as contemporary Indian music.more

Sep 12, 2015

Manilal-Mita Nag brood over the survival of classical music

The times we are living in seem to be quite a disheartening topic for both Manilal as well as Mita Nag. more

Aug 29, 2015

Sanjay Chakraborty fights with America through musical ideas

For classical music artist Sanjay Chakraborty, music has an exclusive definition pertaining only to the manner of his own learning and understanding, which has major spiritual overtones.more

Aug 21, 2015

Monojit Datta agrees to human errors, not @ cost of music

Monojit Datta is a strict believer in sticking to the basics when it comes to music.more

Aug 10, 2015

Riding on rhythms with wastes, for a better future

Sanjay Mondal of Kolkata Creative Waste Art Centre narrates his vis-à-vis the band’s story that sounds something straight out of fiction.more

Jul 29, 2015

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri affirms music as his religion

Classical music artist Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is seemingly obsessed with the idea of roots and origins when it comes to music. more

Jul 14, 2015

Paul Mullick and his melodies of old Park Street, Calcutta

For saxophonist Paul Mullick, his passion for music is almost synonymous to the days or rather evening he spent playing for the crowd at various iconic restaurants and venues at Park Street.more

May 26, 2015

Pota disagrees to up-tempo numbers as only Bangla Band

Folk music has always been a deep passion and a strong point for Abhijit Barman aka Pota.more

May 16, 2015

Rolling against the road of Bangla Band music

Keeping in mind the context of practicing Bangla Band music, Road Roller is more than aware of the uphill task ahead of them. more

Apr 20, 2015

Anindya Bose @ Bangla Bands grew in age, their music didn’t

Talking about the origins of Bangla Band music, Anindya Bose states that the entire had a very bright beginning.more

Apr 05, 2015

Pinky flashes on success of Bangla Band and its cost!

Following much hurdles, conflicts and obstacles, Cactus succeeded in making it really big in Bangla Band music! more

Apr 05, 2015

Chandrabindoo stumbles @ 9th, leaves it for future listeners

After ruling the Bangla Band music charts with eight albums, Upal of Chandrabindoo, one of the most prominent Bands in this music scenario, sounds equally satisfied and grateful for their success and acceptance. more

Mar 29, 2015

Sidhu refuses to admit dwindling status of Bangla Band Music

Asked about the overall position of Bangla Band music, Sidhu feels that the resurgence of Bengali film music has definitely altered the scenario and the market dynamics. more

Mar 21, 2015

Amyt Datta learns from life and his students as well

Being a music artist, Amyt Datta feels that his position as a teacher is special. For him, teaching is anything but a one-way trafficmore

Feb 24, 2015

Somnath Roy calls for a new Gharana, Hindustani Ghatam

Carnatic music artist, percussionist Somnath Roy is in the process of developing his music with Ghatam.more

Jan 31, 2015

Kalikaprasad delineates so-called mainstream as an urban concept

Talking about prevalent and popular forms versus folk music, Kalikaprasad feels that the broad idea of mainstream and the logic of market economy don’t always work.more

Dec 31, 2014

Ed Hanley, a story of “West meets East”!

Ed Hanley started out as a self taught guitar player who wanted to shift to drums and percussion. more

Dec 18, 2014

Gabu is musically enriched playing beyond Bangla Band

Gaurab Chatterjee (Gabu) of Lakkhichhara looks back at his career curve and the way it has branched out from Bangla band music in different musical directions over the years.more

Nov 27, 2014

Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta sheds his lights on fusion music

According to Indian classical music artist Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, the idea of fusion is much more than mere mixing of Indian and Western instruments to produce a sound.more

Oct 25, 2014

Rita Ganguly travels intense into her musical memory lanes

Recalling the memories of her idols, one of the most important performing artists of our time and essentially a classical music artist Rita Ganguly vehemently argues against the notion of rivalry between Begum Akhtar and Siddheshwari Devi. more

Oct 20, 2014

Kaushiki met equal expertise in Coke Studio as in Classical

Kaushiki Chakraborty recounts the feeling of elated surprise when her live music album “Pure” won an award at the BBC.more

Oct 01, 2014

Kalika claims ‘Media’ as an unfit platform for finer music

According to Kalika Prasad of Dohar (a folk music band), performing arts should ideally not be dependent on the media. more

Sep 13, 2014

Rupankar prefers human error in Music

Rupankar Bagchi emphasizes on the fact that even amid the Bangla band music ethos, he always wanted to be a solo performer and never a band’s front man.more

Aug 27, 2014

Abhijit Barman aka Pota’s music began at college canteen

Abhijit Barman better known as Pota recounts his entry into so-called Bangla Band music.more

Aug 16, 2014

Kanishka (Pinky) remembers the days when Cactus was born

Discovering a new Bangla song was almost a pathological need for Kanishka (Pinky) and his generation. more

Aug 05, 2014

Sidhu was not happy being namesake to ex-chief minister

Siddhartha Shankar Ray, better known as Sidhu, one of the biggest names in Bangla Band Music, sounds bemused as he recounts the roots and consequences of his name. more

Jul 20, 2014

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri defines Tabla as a language

Tabla maestro Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri explains the nuanced art of the instrument and how it can reciprocate the intonation of any spoken word.more

Jul 13, 2014

Silajit believes “Tunir Maa” is phenomenal Bengali music

Be it in case of Bengali music or even more specifically Bangla Band Songs, Shilajit believes in calling a spade a spade. more

Jul 12, 2014

Subhen defines Fusion Music as expression of restless life

According to classical music artist Subhen Chatterjee, restlessness is the primary symptom of modern life.more

Jul 05, 2014

Amyt Datta hates “second hand” music shows

Amyt Datta lashes out against the notion of making a career out of playing covers in second hand style! more

Jul 03, 2014

Manilal Nag- Life of a Classical Music artiste

Classical music artiste Manilal Nag bears a legacy of Bengali music that cuts across six generations of musicians practicing Bishnupur Gharana.more

Jan 08, 2014

Amyt Datta expects audience to be more open

Guitar maestro, Amyt Dutta firmly believes that evolution of a new form requires input from both the music artist as well as the audience.more