The Indoencers - An Insight Into Indian Music

On the 12th episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I spoke with Abhay Nayampally - an incredible Carnatic guitarist and independent musician, who is a disciple of the legendary Shri Mandolin Srinivas. We spoke about his unusual emotional attachment to music as a child, a life-changing lunch break on a park bench, the evolution of Carnatic music, among tons of other topics. There's also a lovely C...

On the 11th episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I had a chat with the one and only Shashaa Tirupati - a National Award winning singer who has sung some of India's biggest hits for composers like AR Rahman, Isaignani Illayaraja, Mithoon, among many others. We spoke about the importance of being self-made and self-sufficient to her, the role of pain in music creation, plus so much more. It was a...

On the tenth episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I had the opportunity to have a chat with the incredible Aditya Prakash. We spoke about his struggles of dealing with the conflict in cultures between India and the Bay Area in the United States, how going on a tour with Ravi Shankar at the age of 16 quashed many of his internal struggles, the impact of hyper-consumerism in the music scene today, amo...

On the ninth episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I spoke with Prashanth Techno - a music producer who has used his expertise over synths in particular to help cultivate new sounds within both the Indian independent and film music scenes. We spoke about how he learned music despite having a very limited formal musical education, his experience participating in a reality show judged by none other tha...

On the eighth episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I spoke with Apoorva Krishna - a phenomenal violinist and composer, who has worked and performed with legendary artists like Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain, Bombay Jayashree, among many other such musicians. We spoke about how a strict musical education (from the Lalgudi family nonetheless!) gave her a firm grounding in Carnatic music, the conflue...

This year has been quite the year for all of us - in many ways unfortunately extremely negative. For this podcast, though, 2020 has honestly been a mindbogglingly incredible year, as I've had the honour of speaking to musicians that I would not have even dreamt of interviewing when I started this platform. As we wrap up this year, I wanted to take the opportunity to look back at some of my fa...

On the seventh episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I had a chat with singer-songwriter Drishti Tandel (Drish T), who burst onto the independent music scene with her original compositions written in - wait for it - in Japanese. Yes, Japanese! We spoke about her fascination with Japanese culture, how she thinks her uniqueness as an artist affects her commercial prospects within the independent music...

On the sixth episode of The Indoencers podcast, I spoke with Prashanth Srinivas, an incredibly talented composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and the brain behind the RagaHaus initiative. We spoke about how he goes about expressing emotions through music, why “evil is swag”, how accidentally playing two songs at the same time led to a musical breakthrough, among other topics. We hope you enjoy...

In the fifth episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I spoke with Darshana KT - a singer who has sung for the likes of Isaignani Illayaraja, Harris Jayaraj, and has grown to be a regular for the one and only AR Rahman. We spoke about the times where her school Hindi teacher gave her bonus marks because she loved Darshana's renditions of Hindi songs so much, her experience recording the incredible...

In the fourth episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I sat down with one of the finest young music directors in the Tamil cinema scene today, Ashwin Vinayagamoorthy - the brain behind hits such as “Aagayam Thaayaga”, “Un Nerukkam”, “Pudavai Nilave”, among other such songs. We spoke about his experiences working with artists like Sid Sriram and Dhanush, why kuthu songs are set to minor keys/scales, the...

On the third episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I had a chat with the brilliant Abhay Jodhpurkar - the singer of many of our favourite songs, including AR Rahman's “Moongil Thottam”, “Mere Naam Tu” from the Sharukh Khan starrer Zero , among other such hits. We spoke about his childlike curiosity, why he labels himself as "destiny's child", the a capella group which he calls “th...

In the second episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I spoke with teenage sensation Edwin Louis, who rose to fame after releasing two hit singles within a week: "Adiye Kutti Devadhe", released by Think Music India, and "Thalapathy Raid", which he released through his own YouTube channel. We spoke about his parents' influences on his life, the times where he used to sleep insid...

In the first episode of The Indoencers Podcast, I spoke with Composer Sanjay, an extremely talented independent artist, who is also well-known for leading Sanskruti, a band that absolutely bossed their appearance on Kappa TV's Music Mojo. We spoke about how his composing journey started off with a public event/function in his high school, how he deals with writer's block, why and how he...