Music Vedanth Bharadwaj

1 music

1.1 career
1.2 albums

1.2.1 mati kahe
1.2.2 suno bhai


1.3 frequent collaborations
1.4 performances
1.5 notable influences

music
early career

when returned chennai rishi valley school, vedanth formed band called buddha’s babies, playing in genre liked call “alternative acoustic trance”. after, returned indian classical music , started training ramamoorthy rao, remains guru day. while doing masters, vedanth did series of studies on music therapy. worked music therapist children special needs @ kaleidoscope learning centre. meanwhile, composing ad jingles companies reliance , parry’s. formed group ananth menon , friend balu (music director sk balachandran), , composed music jagapati babu-starrer telugu film brahmastram in 2006.

albums
mati kahe

a few years later, during composed few more films , set studio in house, vedanth rediscovered songs bhakti movement. started singing songs of mirabai, guru nanak , kabir, adding own twists tunes. led germination of first album, mati kahe (2007), contains songs saints , poets of bhakti movement. songs accompanied guitar, , of tunes composed guru.

suno bhai

the success of first album fuelled drive , started work on second project. wanting concentrate on works of kabir, read translations of couplets , listened renditions of songs kumar gandharva. collaborated classical singer bindhu malini, , made second album, suno bhai (2013).

frequent collaborations

in addition suno bhai, vedanth , bindhu malini, perform together, including @ annual kabir yatra in madhya pradesh. vedanth collaborated several musicians second album, including flautist navin iyer, percussionist satya narayanan , kanjeera-player bs purushotaman. collaborated trichur brothers part of group anubhuti. there several musicians vedanth performs regularly. among them anil srinivasan , sikkil gurucharan of whom vedanth says, when 3 of together, music happens. common collaborator of ananth menon of bangalore-based musical group galeej gurus. vedanth , ananth have given several performances including @ fireflies festival of sacred music in bangalore. shruthi vishwanath, classically trained singer sings abhangs , nirgun poetry of collaborators @ kabir festival of mumbai, , malwa kabir yatra. has played guitar on bombay jayashri s album, kannamma, , composed score contemporary dancer anita ratnam s production, faces. has collaborated theatre director rajeev krishnan, giving music , playing small parts in plays, jujubee , how skin giraffe.

performances

vedanth has unique style blends indian classical , folk music. vedanth has given several performances , concerts on india , abroad. of notable performances have been @ playhouse company south africa, singapore, ladakh music confluence 2010, ted conference 2011, congo square jazz festival in kolkata 2010, chennai sangamam 2012, coimbatore vizha 2011, fireflies festival 2011, tedxsvce chennai 2012, kabir yatra @ bikaner, mumbai, pondicherry , malwa, nh7 bangalore, storm festival coorg.

notable influences

vedanth has diverse set of influences ranging bob dylan, eric clapton, eagles, beatles, allman brothers, ray charles, frank sinatra tr mahalingam, ilayaraja, ar rahman, ustad amir khan, pt bhimsen joshi , kabir , meera.