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INDIA TOUR 2024 IS A GO!

We're on tour now!

The Swarathma India Tour 2024 celebrates the launch of the new album Raushan, releasing as singles over the year.

The sound systems of the tour are powered by solar and clean energy with the help of a power rig that has been designed for the live music industry. With this, we hope we can make a small step towards more sustainable concert experiences.

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POWERING SOUND WITH SOLAR

Meet Sunny! Our renewable energy rig that charges up from solar (or clean energy) sources and helps power the sound systems of the Swarathma India Tour 2024 concerts. With this, we avoid the use of the diesel genset that would otherwise be a requirement. Is this a perfect solution? No. But it is a step towards more sustainable concerts.

NEW SINGLE - BAS - OUT NOW

As promised, Swarathma's new single ‘BAS’ has just dropped!

A satirical take on the silence of artists in the face of challenging times. All you have to do is pretend that everything is fine, and remember...

'Apna kaam hai BAS, gaana gaane ka!'

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SONGS THAT MAKE EACH OF US - CURATED SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS

Varun Selects

A window into the musical mind of guitarist & producer Varun

Vasu Selects

Songs that front-man Vasu gets joy and inspiration from, takes pride in

Sanjeev Selects

Holding up the classical end of the banner is violin wizard Sanjeev

Jishnu Selects

Songs that are milestones in bassist Jishnu's musical journey

LATEST MUSIC

OUR INSTAGRAM

FEB - JULY | SIMPLY LIVE! OUR NEW ACOUSTIC VIDEO SERIES

To beat the long lock-down month blues, we got together at The Red Music Box studio, to make music, no frills. Our 5-track video series - playing acoustic versions of some of our best known songs and hidden gems is now complete. We started with Sur Mera, followed by the soulful Pyaasi, introspective Kaash, rhythmic Rishton ka Raasta and the ode-to-hope Manwa. Stream the complete series on our YouTube channel.

Read about the making of Simply Live! in this blog-post: the no-frills intimate set-up and the music of our hearts that helped us stay connected with you through the long months of the pandemic.

SEP 23 | APPLE'S ONLINE STORE IN INDIA LAUNCHES TO OUR TRACK KHUL JA RE

Here is something HUUGE. A dream collaboration unfolded - Apple, the much-admired brand, launched their online store in India and selected the opening bars of Khul Ja Re, as the soundtrack to their promo-video. Our unique, pulsating, playful rhythm celebrates this milestone in Apple's 20-year journey in India.

We are honored and humbled with this association - it came our way quite serendipitously from our tie-up with Anara Publishing earlier this year. Read more about Khul Ja Re and get tips for publisher tie-ups on our blog.

LIVE IN OCT: WE ARE THRILLED TO BE BACK ON THE ROAD

We are back to live gigging post the pandemic. With all the necessary precautions ofcourse. It feels great to be with you, our live audience. It feels like we never left.

A memorable concert in Jamshedpur at the Tata Steel Tribal Culture Centre, to mark the end of a week of music curation, creation and collaboration with Rhythms of the Earth Collective

A rocking Sunday night gig at Micdrop Delhi, our first stop in the Dus Minute Aur tour. An old-style club gig and it felt like homecoming. We were glad to finally play our new tracks to a live audience.

SWARATHMA DIGITAL CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Our music thrives through the live-concerts we perform in public-spaces. After nearly two difficult years of social-distancing and cancelled shows, we are just getting back to performing live. But, the pandemic is not behind us yet. For now, our shows will be capped-ticketed events with all necessary precautions.

Living through these tough years, our belief in the power of music in bringing communities together has only grown stronger. We are doing out bit to bring you some musical joy in these trying times across multiple platforms and streaming services on social media. We have shared our quarantine thoughts, played music from our homes and re-imagined songs that are our old favourites even as we make new music. We are partnering with our friends and committed organizations to lend ourselves and our music for several fund-raising efforts to support artists and relevant causes.

It's time to re-imagine the (indie)-rock concert: Watch Raah E Fakira Live! from The Red Music Box Studio

The future of entertainment will be hybrid. So, we are re-imagining the digital concert experience. The Red Music Box studio with it's twin-camera and professional audio set up is our perfect online gig spot.

Our digital concerts are live-streamed to audiences, we recreate the vibes of alive show by interacting through chat and keeping our on-stage humor crackling!

NEW ON OUR BLOG

In conversation with Jishnu, Mid-Day captures a nifty tip for Indie-musicians - publishing tie-ups. Watch us perform Khul Ja Re at the 2015 Indie Earth Festival in Bangalore

Read the full blog post here.

Read about the making of Simply Live! - a new video-series that has us going back to our acoustic roots. Our music kept us rooted during these long months when we sorely miss playing to our live audiences.

Recorded live at the warm and welcoming Red Music Box studio.

Read the full blog post here.

Read more about our collaboration with the iconic brand, Apple.

Even as the pandemic kept us home-bound, we kept supporting the causes that matter so much to us through our music. Raising awareness about India's looming water crisis, participating in a public dialogue on making childhood safer or singing to protest mass deforestation, continue to do our bit. We hope that you join in too and be a part of our tribe.

Read the full blog post here.

#ANDOTHERSTORIES

To make sense of the pandemic months, we made music as best as we could.

And since we could not meet you, our music fam, in person, we started a monthly-ish catch-up and by-invite-only hang-out series, hosted online. We reminisced, shared stories of songs. We travelled together on journeys in music. We got our young talented friends to you. We hoped to bring you good cheer and optimism in hard times. Here is a re-cap of #andOtherStories so far:

[Feb, 21] Simply Live! Launch Party
[April, 21] Story of Kaash, accepting regret
[May, 21] Making of Beta Sweater Pehno
[June, 21] Making of our debut album Swarathma - behind the scenes stories
[July, 21] Our early days and the street-art photographs that later became album artwork
[Sept., 21] Morocco memoirs