A cold winter evening! Hundered's of People! Fusion Music - Classical + Rock! Indian Ocean Concert organised by 48 degrees - a arts festival in Delhi. Indian Ocean drowned the crowds with their music, like the waves of the tsunami. The open air concert was fantabulous. Scheduled to start at 6pm, they started a lil late, but it was worth the wait. They played for 3 hours at a stretch with a five minute loo break.
They opened the concert with the song - Kya Maloom - a song that was dedicated to the Kargil War, followed by Ma Rewa - which was picked up for the Narmada Movement. Kandisa, Desert Rain, Jhini followed.
For finale, they played their first Hit, Bandeh - featured as the OST of movie - Black Friday. The crowds did not let them get off the stage, and we had fifteen minutes of a once more request of - Bandeh!
I had heard Indian Ocean songs on CD, but nothing beats the live concert. The atmosphere was amazing, the crowds shouting all along, moving along with the music. The songs gave me goosebumps. The vocals by Amit were great and equally good was Susmit Sen on Guitar. Nothing about appearance told, they were a rock band. Their songs do the talking for them. Their music is quite different, quite contemprary with a fusion of rock and classical, with a range of instruments - tabla, khamak, guitar, drums et al. Plain simple lyrics on earthy classical music, with a lil bit of Jazz thrown in it. Just the kind, that is soul-stirring.
Thouroughly enjoyed myself. Missed some people, who are totally into music - like me. Had they come, it would have been even more fun. They missed all of it ;)
Indian Ocean - You Rock!!
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