<img style="float: left;" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/sep/the-guide-logo.gif" alt="" width="150" height="36" />&nbsp; Aditya Prakash Ensemble will perform in Mumbai as part of the 9th edition of The New Park&rsquo;s Festival 2015 curated by Prakriti Foundation. Prakash, its founder, is an award-winning Indian classical vocalist known for his powerful vocals and sharp music sensibility.
<img title="Aditya Prakash Ensemble in a performance. PICs COURTESY/ sheena Lad" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/oct/Aditya-Prakash-Ensemble.jpg" alt="Aditya Prakash Ensemble in a performance. PICs COURTESY/ sheena Lad" /> Aditya Prakash Ensemble in a performance. PICs COURTESY/ sheena Lad
At 16, he was one of the youngest musicians to perform and tour with Pandit Ravi Shankar. &ldquo;My mother was a classical dancer; I grew up in an environment where I was exposed to classical music. I was trained in the Carnatic style. For a large part of my life, that was the only music I knew. My taste in Western music developed much later at high school and college. My mother would also collaborate with Flamenco dancers and choirs. I loved to witness those experiments,&rdquo; recalls 27-year-old Prakash on the phone from Kolkata.
The Aditya Prakash Ensemble, a Los-Angeles based imaginative group of six musicians, create a powerful mix of the deep-rooted tradition of Indian ragas, chants with modern sounds of Jazz harmony and Hip-Hop-infused rhythms.
<img title="Aditya Prakash" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/oct/AP-Ensemble.jpg" alt="Aditya Prakash" /> Aditya Prakash
&ldquo;We were studying together apart from being roommates. All of us have different backgrounds and diverse interests and tastes in music. We started the group in 2010. The group improvises a lot, plays up each other&rsquo;s energies, and experiments with music,&rdquo; reveals Prakash.
What&rsquo;s on Mumbai&rsquo;s playlist? While Prakash has performed Carnatic and devotional Folk as a solo performer, in India before, acompanied Anoushka Shankar, Karsh Kale and Salim Merchant, it will be the band&rsquo;s maiden performance in Mumbai. Their recent creation &mdash; The Colliding Worlds Project is a 90-minute musical journey that engages the audience in an exciting musical dialogue between Indian Classical, Folk, Jazz and Hip-Hop.
The ensemble will feature refreshingly contemporary arrangements of Classical compositions, bhajans, spiritual poetry and Bollywood songs along with original compositions. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t heard too much of Bollywood music. A few recent tracks impressed me so much that we decided to present our take on these,&rdquo; he shares.
On: Today, 9.30 pm onwards At: At BlueFrog, Mathuradas Mills compound, Lower Parel. Call: 30151765

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