And that is exactly how it began for Sankara.
Two friends meeting after years, sitting together with acoustic guitars in a blue room, showing each other old blues songs they had learnt, listening to blues records and generally talking about the blues. But the blues ofcourse was just one room in the the big mansion and soon the breeze outside, started opening doors into other rooms and other worlds. A snatch of a saxophone riff came out of one.
A nasal voice warned mothers not to let their kids grow up to be cowboys in another.
A wah wah drenched guitar screamed in the third.
And Raga Sankara sung by Kumar Gandharva drifted out of the fourth.
And out of these sounds Sankara was conceived both in concept and in name. The fourth room actually also spewed out a tabla-playing-raga-singing individual who was soon complementing the acoustic guitars on a mini-djembe. Soon a raggedy looking ex-banker too walked out of one of these rooms (i remember it was the smokier one ) and cheerfully offered his services as a bass player. The merry men quickly got down to the business of mixing all the sounds floating around them into a spicy goulash.
And soon the band set out marching joyfully to rhythms from every corner of the world.
You can listen to our music here.
The Sankara blog. Don't forget to add the XML feed to your newsreaders so you can stay abreast of gig dates, etc.
Band history archive here.
The songs and their inspirations here.
The Sankara blog. Don't forget to add the XML feed to your newsreaders so you can stay abreast of gig dates, etc.
Band history archive here.
The songs and their inspirations here.