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Exoperimentation has long been the lifeblood of Shrikanth Srirams music. Initially trained as a tabla player,the musician soon switched to playing bass,influenced by the music of artistes like Led Zeppelin and Eberhard Weber. Now,however,Shri,as he is popularly known,says that hes past the experimentation phase. Now,Im just trying to find new ways of expressing myself, he says,as he prepares to unveil his new project ShriLektric,a one-man actat Bonobo in Mumbai tonight.
The multi-instrumentalist he also plays the flute,cello and the sarangi says that ShriLektric is going to be markedly different from his previous projects. Im trying to create a whole new avatar of myself. Ive been working on the concept for over a year, he says,I dont want the music to sound like electronica or acoustic. What Im really attempting to do is to use the electronica to produce the acoustic in a new way. Until now,Shri has mostly been performing what can be called jazz-fusion,which combines jazz improvisations with Indian ragas. Hopefully,he says,the concert at Bonobo will go ahead and become an album. As of now,its just a live act, he says.
All the same,hes proud that this movement has increasingly found great acceptance in India with a wide range of acts from the UK such as Talvin Singh,Asian Dub Foundation and Bandish Projekt performing in the country. With Indians being introduced to music from all over the world, they are better able to connect with the new kinds of musical developments that are happening globally. He hopes that this same eagerness of the new Indian audience to embrace new kinds of music will be in evidence at his concert tonight.
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