By Bhaskar J. Das Photo Credits: Music Craft Concepts – Sumit Baruah and Ankur Jyoti Das The music lovers of the beautiful city of Guwahati witnessed a wonderful musical evening on 21st June 2012 organised by Aucto Creations as a celebration of World Music Day. I too had the privilege […]
Features
A Very Good Cause. Project Uttham. and Agam and Eka
By Rohan Thomas After all, it was for a good cause…… After a hard week of labour, I was looking through the internet, to find something to go to that weekend. After an hour of futile research, I came across a charity event, Project Utthan, featuring the bands, Eka and […]
IS A.R.RAHMAN INVINCIBLE OR CAN HE BE BEATEN?
By Rohan Thomas MAIN PARESHAN PARESHAN PARESHAN………. Since his thunderous entry into the music scene with Roja in Tamil and then later, nationwide recognition with Rangeela, Dil se and Taal, A.R. Rahman has been sitting on the throne of the Indian music scene for almost 2 decades, not only overshadowing his […]
‘Market is not even a shadow of what it was a decade back’
By Aiyushman Dutta It has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride for Debo Borkotoky, who in a span of three decades has established his family business into a mega empire. His label NK Productions, a King maker of sorts in Assam, has seen it all – a stuttering start […]
Stacy’s Penitence crowned Scavenger Rock Idol 2012
By Aiyushman Dutta Towards the fag end of last month, I travelled down to one of the extreme frontiers of the country – Mizoram – to watch the tiny State hunt for its new music idol. Scavenger Rock Idol, as the event was christened, was the brainchild of two highly […]
Interview with Kolkata’s Technical Death Metal act EVIL Conscience
Interview by: Sunny Sarkar Band Members: Arunava Chakrabarti- Vocals Pritam Middey- Guitars Avijit Das- Guitars Subhrajit Gupta- Bass Niloy Das- Drums 1)How do you guys relate to the name or the sound of the band on a personal level? Niloy– We basically focus on the nature of […]
Northeast rules in national cultural carnival
By: Aiyushman Dutta For connoisseurs of art and culture, Panchkula in Haryana was the place to be last week. This small township in the northern part of the country was host to the gala Silver Jubilee celebrations of the seven Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) of the country. For four consecutive […]
Northeast grooves in Delhi
By: Aiyushman Dutta The capital city woke up to the musical vibrancy of Northeast Indian music last week. The event, titled North East Junction, was held in the busy Dilli Haat from April 13 to 15 last and had a varied spectrum of musicians from the eastern-most frontier of the […]
Live talk with Darjeeling’s If Hope Dies
Interview by: Shaun Klet, Photos by: Music Craft Concepts How are you guys? IHD: We are Doing good, thanks for having us for the interview. Tell us what made you think that you guys came up to ‘If Hope Dies’ and how the band formed? IHD: Having […]
Petra relived as Schlitt enthrals
By Aiyushman Dutta Photo by Caisii Mao Gospel rock enjoys tremendous popularity in the Northeast and the fan following of gospel bands in States like Nagaland and Mizoram needs to be seen to be believed. Even in the last couple of decades of the previous century, the fan following of […]