Balamwa (feat. Satej Joshi)
Exciting news! My newest project and first collaboration with my dear cousin Satej Joshi is out today!
"Balamwa" is a bandish originally written and composed by our late great-grandfather Pandit V.R. Athavale in the Hindustani Raga Alhaiya Bilawal. Satej and I met up in the United States after meeting several years prior in India, and decided to finally record music together. What better way to collaborate than by sharing our great-grandfather's music? We have reinterpreted his classic melody in a new sound and can't wait to share it with you all.
Special thanks to Shirin Navgire for the amazing artwork for this one – a perfect testament to the minimalist approach Satej and I have taken for this recording.
"Balamwa" is now streaming on SoundCloud as of today, what would have been our Aaba's 102nd birthday. We hope you all with enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it!