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“Last year people were surprised to see musicians from India making music that was neither bhangra nor classical. Our music is the music of the new India. This year we performed in festivals like Glastonbury and Big Chill in UK, Oya in Norway and C/O Pop Fest in Germany,” says Func. Performing at some of the bigger festivals, they claim makes the organisers and producers in the west more aware of the music scene in India. “When they hear our music they realise that there is an audience for this kind of music in India and they want to bring their performers here and also want to take Indian artists abroad,” says Func.
Ask them about the state of the underground /alternative music scene in India and they claim it is booming like never before. Mainstream music, they say, draws inspiration from underground music. But what excites them more is that Bollywood is gradually waking up to such alternative music. They were recently seen performing in Rock On and have also penned a couple of songs for the soon-to-be-released Saas, Bahu aur Sensex. “There is a difference between Rock On and Saas Bahu.... In Rock On we performed as Shaair and Func but Saas Bahu... was different. As musicians we make certain kind of music and the kind of music we made in Saas Bahu... differed from our musical sensibilities. It was merely a job that Randolph and Monica had to perform,” claims Shaair aka Monica. Gigs at international festivals and a stint in a Bollywood production what’s next? “We are busy working on our third album. While it’s far from ready we promise you there is going to be some fantastic stuff in there,” they say. We will wait.
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