He won India Film Project's 50 Hour Music Challenge from a pool of over 700 teams and is the artist responsible for SaReGaMa’s first non-film release. Yet Tanmoy Guha, better known by his stage name Dhi Harmony, has been making his own music for a…
Moin Farooqui embodies the spirit of a true indie artist. To back me up here, Musician-Entrepreneur Big Will, AKA Will Zhong, sums up the characteristics of an indie artist perfectly, "They don't stop learning more, they work relentlessly, they think outside the box when it…
By 1964, Beatlemania took over the world with the band appearing on the Ed Sullivan show, viewed 73 million times and resulting in sold out concerts. The Beatles would then travel in armoured vehicles to protect them from screaming, frenzied fans. Their popularity, though studied…
We were quick to fall in love with his minimalistic yet funky rhythms, his erudite and entertaining lyrics and, of course, the raw honesty with which he talks about his work. But Canadian drummer, producer and lyricist Alexander Cook AKA Azawka may just be his…
I've spent the past couple of weeks chatting (on and off) with the industrious Shezan Shaikh and what a trip it has been. Just when you think the guy has too much on his plate, well, he goes and fills it up some more. For…
Meet 28-year old Harish Budhwani. A software engineer/developer during the day, kickass musician at all other hours. We've met many engineer-musicians in our lives, actually so many that it borders on cliché. But there's a lot that's different about Harish. Perhaps because he's disciplined and…
Harry D’Souza is not your run-of-the-mill musician. I got the sense of it when I first listened to his music. And I was entirely convinced of it when I’d finished an hour-long conversation with him. One, he's learned the ropes organising gigs for other artists…
Remember our letter-writing exercises in school? We’re wondering where those skills had vanished in today’s workplace environments, where even the salutation ‘Dear’ seems to have retired from most written communications. If there’s anything I’ve learned from life, it’s the fact that if you’re asking someone…
Rap music has been around the Indian music scene for decades now, but I’m sure we can all agree that the renaissance of the 2010s is what most of us would now associate with desi hip-hop. What we have fondly come to refer to as…
Prateek Gandhi can handle just about anything you throw at him. We noticed how many songs we hear on a daily basis that have been worked on by Prateek. We had to heart-to-heart talk with him about everything, his Bollywood music, how he picks his…