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This Mumbai-based band is bringing Bastar's folk music to the fore
Updated On: 06 August, 2024 09:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble
A city-based art-rock band is bringing folk music from a Naxalite district to the fore through grassroots collaborations on their latest album to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Lakheshwar Khudaram (centre) performs a song in Halbi with his group of tribal musicians in Bastar
Musicians from cities often look down their noses at rural musicians. We carry an arrogant notion that rural artistes know nothing about the nuances of music,” shares alt-rock band Daira’s frontman Piyush Kapoor, over a call from Raipur. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” he is quick to follow up. Kapoor’s realisation comes after a collaborative project with the tribal Gond, Halba and Bhatra musicians of Chhattisgarh’s Naxalite area, Bastar, spanning two years and in the band’s words, a cultural eye-opener and a half.
For the band, whose name literally translates to confines or limits, the trip beyond began with an invitation to a music workshop in Bastar in 2022. Today, it ends with the release of an hour-long documentary of the experience titled Daira’s Jadoo Bastar. “To add to our delight, the release comes just in time for the week dedicated to the world’s indigenous people [International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples falls on August 9], and exactly two years after our first visit to Bastar,” the musician shares.
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