Together as one

Updated On: 31 July, 2021 08:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen

The spirit of collaboration between Indian indie musicians blossomed like never before during the pandemic, and four disparate artistes show us how

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Malini Hariharan and Anurag Shanker with Arfaaz Kagalwala

Two to tango

Anurag Shanker and Namit Das are long-term collaborators who reached out to people like Rajasthani folk musicians during the pandemic to give their sound a new direction. But for Shanker, he found a collaborator much closer to home in this period — his wife, Malini Hariharan. “She is in the business of music while
I am more of a creator, but she has always been listening to more evolved artistes than I have. And while we were stuck at home during the pandemic, we decided to start an Instagram series called You, Me and Quarantine, where we did covers of old 1980s and ’90s classics,” Shanker says.

The idea, he continues, was to give people a fuzzy, nostalgic feeling that reminded them that even though things might seem bad right now, they were better earlier, and will eventually go back to being that way. Gradually, friends from college — who are also musicians — started coming on board, including Arfaaz Kagalwala, who is now based in France. So, the husband-wife duo figured out a system to get them on board, and Shanker says that this series won’t stop, because, in his own words, “the pandemic is not stopping either”.

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