Right Note

Pallavi Jassi

“Winning this competition has given the band a new lease of life. Such a platform is a first for a Hindi band,” says Jishnu Dasgupta, bass vocalist and bassist of the band that has bagged a year-long album contract with EMI and will release a compilation by year end. The fusion outfit that was born in a small room in Mysore skilfully blends Indian folk with the strong classical character of Carnatic music, and even rock, reggae and jazz. “We want to fuse the best of various genres with Indian sounds,” says Vasu Dixit, the lead vocalist and guitarist who stands out in his very funky Afro hairdo. The musicians agree that they reach out to the masses by singing in Hindi. But their music sure is groovy, for at a recent gig in the Capital, they sang in Kannada and had Delhiites sing along.