In the perennially evolving landscape of the Indian independent music scene, there is a tremor emanating from the unlikeliest of sources. Launched two years ago, with a core team comprising merely seven people, Artist Aloud is one of those novel music enterprises that has begun to cast a shadow much larger than itself. “The key,” says Soumini Sridhar Paul, associate vice president, “is for the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.”

Ankur Tewari is among the artistes who will perform on Artist Aloud