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If the concept of Indie music in most parts of Asia (I don't think so), the subject matter could be considered India.
Being an artist from India, I have something to record I believe.
As a matter of fact, there is no such an Indie music evolution historically, as like as it happened in US and Europe.
Music in India could be easily identified into very few categories. Traditional music, Film music and Folk music.
Traditional India music includes two major classical schools, Carnatic and Hindustani which represents Southern and Northern part of India, respectively.
Film music is what films usually have 30 to 35 songs (really) in early days, they were based on traditional music of India and people started calling them as “Lithe Music” as they were lighter than traditional music.
Very difference of this kind of music from Jazz like counter parts are, these music involves vocal as back bone and there is no such an artist who hangs around with his guitar. He could be only an accompanying artist , like a drummer.
Indian folk music could be considered just like “roots” music and they does not have the support and exposure that really deserves. Say an A&R could find artists like who they appear on
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/Present scenario of Indian music has not much changed, except the fact that a new generation of Indie Artists have evolved. Problem with this category in my opinion as follows
They just “mimic” western / US bands which is unlikely to be successful in most of the cases to an American ear; they just lack nativity. I understand there are two main reasons for this kind of behavior
One, traditional Indian music would easily take 10 to 15 years of in school learning, what people abhor always in this fast paced world.
Second thing, they equate western music = modern music, and pathetically, most of them really don’t know what different genres represents what to an American. I saw an Indian portal for Indie artists, which lists all genres an American portal suppose to list. They say it is a place for Indian musicians and they really don’t know what they mean. They clearly starts from “Acapella”, which would make an American happy to park his or her music, which is not the purpose of the portal and any American artist I guess.
Here, either hell a lot of confusions exist, or I perceive so.
//i have listened to your music alot and think its fantastic, a refreshing change from what is usually on my playlist.//
This is what Fredrik wrote in his welcome post. It does not mean that Fredrik is going to play with a Sitar. In case our so called category of India artists, this won’t be the case. What if Fredrik wants to play Sitar or wants to write notes for Sitar? I would really enjoy that. I guess his scores would be most probably suits a guitar. Here I am not addressing Fredrik personally, say an example. I guess I make my point clear here.
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