bye bye september. we loved you.

artists are as artists can only be. distracted and very bad at promising anything except good music. we promised to update you guys every step of our tour, but with all the shows, lugging bags around (refer- kalyani’s monster bag) jumping on and off trains, mountains, building… and bridges, we barely had time (or internet connection) to blog. we are all back now in chennai, far from relaxed, only charged with more work as we return to take up our usual work and new projects, we are sure will keep us busy for a while.

breakfast rumination

lights, camera, action every waking second!

starting with the himalaya tour, we were happy to be traveling with two wonderful photographers- priya, our designated photographer and shiv ahuja, someone we met at ask earlier show in delhi. both had agreed to document our tour, so along with the instruments, we had tripods and camera’s to look after. half way up the himalayas (you know thats just a figure of speech) sonapani village unfurled green and surprisingly warm, with lovely hosts that baked us fresh cookies every evening! ram and ashish had put a great few days together, filled with fresh air, wonderful audience, smacking food and handful of cheerful children and altogether a great opportunity for us.

barely a peek into the peaks

the peaks were beautiful and elusive, everyday we’d get about three minutes to look above the clouds and find a faintest of lines, outlining the peak of nandadevi…  and no matter how many times we looked, every time we searched for it, it was higher up than we imagined. our cottages were cozy and every morning was a pleasure to wake up to, for we had rehearsals, shows and the himalayas lined up all day. in the process of all this, we were getting photographed continuously… who’d have thought to complain?!

as usual yodhakaa had a warm, reverent response while la pongal blasted open with sound and dance, we are sure echoed all over the mountain.

well, hello hong kong!

from the himalayas, we went to the absolute opposite. crowded, tench savvy hong kong, full of lights, metal, people and noise… and we loved it just as much! harmonize projekt, yodhakaa and la pongal came together in hong kong with a three hour long show that felt too short for all we had to say! three big things besides the concert happened in hong kong-

1. we bought loads of new instruments… in fact we travelled empty handed and empty boxed, and filled up the hard cases with instruments at ‘tom lee’ artseek unofficial supplier as of now, because all our instruments are currently from their store!

the beginning of a new relationship

music man, i am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. we made three awesome apple purchases. two macbook pros and one i phone. thats two future tie ups right there

we really did inaugurate the apple store. believe us. music is larger than you thought. =/

3. the third and my most favorite- disneyland… where everything is magic. we rounded off our perfect and eventful tour with a far-from-peaceful twelve hours at disneyland hong kong.

stitch and sully. we now make our own cartoons.

closer to end of september, we have a couple of shows left, practices full swing, and our monthly newsletter in the making for you guys. watch out for updates, and remember, missing an artseek show is NOT an option. =)