Anyasa is bringing Indian traditional music and electronic sounds to the world – Mixmag

The idea was to create an authentic sound. A sound that embraced my Indian roots and brought classical vocals to the global electronic music stage. Through a combination of previous connections and fresh discoveries on Instagram, I narrowed down four amazing singers and songwriters - Isheeta Chakravarthy, Bawari Basanti, Avneet Khurmi and Amira Gill. I also tried to capture that progressive essence, that was my gateway to electronic music back in the early 00s.

Isheeta Chakrvartys voice has graced title soundtracks for a number of Bollywood blockbusters. She trained in Hindustani Classical music before collaborating with Indian jazz icons like Carlton Kitto and Louis Banks. Bawari Basanti started to learn classical music aged nine when her grandmother would teach classes in their family home. She later studied Hindustani Music and attended Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music to learn performing arts.

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Amira Gill is a vocalist and songwriter from New Delhi, India. She attended the world renowned Berklee College of Music. She writes original music in English, Hindi and Punjabi, with a rich vocal style that covers soul and R&B as well as Indian Folk music.

Avneet Khurmi was brought up in Chandigarh, India but is based in Amsterdam and has had several big Indian hits in the Punjabi folk style and collaborated with the huge Indian producers like Nucleya and Lost Stories.

With a history reaching back over 6000 years, Indian classical is one of the earliest formal music systems and one of the richest. Yet while it is an obvious resource, still a relatively small number of homegrown Indian artists have managed to authentically fuse modern house or techno with this rich mine of traditional sounds.

While we are discussing history, its hard to underestimate the importance of Goas place in Indian and global dance music.

In the late 80s or early 90s many British and Northern European DJs and ravers had a stark choice when wanting to escape the dreariness: Goa or Ibiza. Some went for both, doing summer seasons in Ibiza and then heading to the tropics for winter despite stories that it sometimes got so hot it would melt your records. In Goa they would find parties and raves of unreal proportions, often lasting as long as a week with people from all over the world dancing on beaches and deep in the jungle. Sven Vth spent a lot of time there partying and playing. The place even has a genre named after it: Goa Trance.

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