Swarathma & Stories
Recap of one of the most epic sessions hosted on Lishash that had 50 people in attendance at once!
20 years of Swarathma — and they’ve made music that spans across themes and sounds alike, some people have come and gone (but stayed in legacy) and yet some things remain interminable. With Swarathma, it seems to be evolution and change. And an astute and discerning sense of understanding how the social structures around them are constantly changing, are in constant flux. There’s no resistance to fusion, to new sounds, to new mediums of messages. In fact, they seem to be bedrocks of the band.
One of these open arm acceptances of a new medium was how they moved to digital as the pandemic struck. In search of genuine conversations and connect with their listeners, they made a Discord server and started a hang out series called #andOtherStories. Besides the ground breaking music of Swarathma, this desire to stay connected during times of despair, is what made us reach out to them. And am I glad we did.
Yesterday, we had the band host a Stories and Swarathma session on Lishash and it was an experience unlike any other we’ve had. We’re still trying to put our fingers on what exactly it was that felt different but it was probably the verve, the desire to tell stories and the dynamic shared by the band members. We were joined by Jishnu Dasgupta, Varun Murali, Vinay Ramakrishnan and Vasu Dixit (unfortunately Sanjeev Nayak couldn’t make it) and they took us through the stories of some of their own tracks, the stories behind them and just really… hung out with us and with each other.
From funny origin stories of songs that we have all listened to for ages now,
to Vasu’s umm… jokes (no just kidding, dad jokes like these are foundational tenets of Lishash).
Conversations ranged from song themes and production to experiences to gigs and straight up banter. Here’s a peak:
Here’s to more songs, stories, and Swarathma.
Written while listening to Koorane, Agla Savera, Dus Minute Aur, Naane Daari, Ee Bhoomi, Pyaasi.
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