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July 03, 2000 |
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 Rock 'n' raga It was a six-hour Woodstock-style whoopla at Ghitorni in Delhi in honour of World Music Day even if the air was muggy and it took half-an-hour to extricate a bottle of Coke and burra kebab from the counter. The carmine-robed Manganiyars from Barmer singing Nimbooda Nimbooda gave the crowds (including novelist I. Allan Sealy, now entrenched in Delhi for his new book on "contemporary Shahjahanabad") the introductory thrills. Then the Music Today-sponsored sitarist Gaurav Majumdar played the evening raga, Charukeshi. The energetic charge d'affaire of France Eric Fournier along with the Capital Swingers also set jazz on the melodic menu -- Fournier doing a sax act with Miles Davis' buoyant Bye Bye Blackbird. But the more happening bands turned out to be Mrigya and Parikrama which curiously had a lot of overlapping members. Violinist Sarat Srivastava was active in both, jamming Lets Rag for Mrigya and some Rajasthani maand melding into Deep Purple's Lazy for Parikrama. Nothing like the fruits of fusion. -Anshul
Avijit
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