Bandish Projekt - Alchemy -Feat Last Mango in Paris

What this video is

Released September 3, 2013 as the lead single from the forthcoming album 'Connekt', 'Alchemy' sits at the intersection of India's post-liberalisation identity politics and the early-2010s Indian independent electronic music boom. The track is built around a spoken-word poem by UK-based South Asian artist Shane Solanki (Last Mango in Paris), whose verse articulates a pan-Indian cultural self-portrait fusing Vedic…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of Indian IDM/electronic fusion, 'Alchemy' represents the maturation of the genre pioneered by Bandish Projekt since 1997: classical Indian raga structures and tabla percussion fused with bass-heavy Western electronica. As a music video it is equally significant as an exemplar…

The director

Ekabhuya is a Pune-based art animation collective. Co-founder and Creative Director Pranay Patwardhan trained at MAAC and D.S.K. Supinfocom School of Animation, Pune. Co-founder and Director Shivangi Ranawat holds a B.E. in Information Science from B.M.S.…