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Rahul Sharma wants to introduce santoor to new genres of music
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experimental Rahul Sharma
Inspiration can come from anywhere. Take musician Rahul Sharma. He found his stimulus for his latest album, Antariksh, from a casual conversation. “I was playing in this concert which was being watched by former President APJ
Abdul Kalam. After the show, he came up to me to express his pleasure and said, ‘Listening to your music I felt as if I was flying. I was up with the planets and the stars’. That made me think. If music can transport you to another world, why not make music based on that world,” recalls Rahul.
Space fantasy
“Space is such a wonderful mix of fantasy with reality. The thought that a person can travel beyond the earth intrigued me. It has a mystery to it. It’s like stepping into the future,” he says. (The album even has a track titled “Chandrayaan”). Rahul agrees that he often finds inspiration in abstract thoughts, “I do get crazy ideas. I love to do funky things. I think experiments are exciting. There’s a risk involved but people also love such music. I have done 40 albums. If there was no saleability, why would a record company come ahead and release it?” he questions.
Then, is that a reason why most of his recent albums are fusion or lounge based? He clears the air saying he has been doing a lot of classical music as well.
“My forthcoming America tour with Zakir Hussain is a classical one,” says Rahul.
“Till seven or eight years back, who would have thought of having a music video for instrumentalists? Now, my music videos are out on channels like MTV and Channel V,” explains the son of the legendary Shiv Kumar Sharma.
So how does Panditji react to his son’s work?
“He is happy that santoor has moved beyond classical. He was especially happy with my collaboration with Richard Clayderman, as it took santoor to a different set of audience.”
Film music doesn’t quite figure anywhere on his list despite his first venture into music direction for Mujhse Dosti Karoge, garnering a good response.
“I travel so much that I don’t have enough time for music direction.I have a mission with the santoor to fulfil and that is to take it to new genres of music.”
MANGALA RAMAMOORTHY
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