This week we focus on Mrigya, one of the most exciting fusion bands from India. Ganga is a piece featured in the 2010 album The Composition of World Harmony (EMI Music India/Virgin Records India)
Mrigya is an exciting Indian group based in Delhi. On their debut album, titled The Composition of World Harmony, Mrigya mixes impassioned Indian classical and folk music as well as Hindustani and Sufi vocals with phenomenal jazz fusion and a potent rhythm section.
The group’s leading instruments are the violin, the electric guitar and vocals. Band members include Sharat Chandra Srivastava on violin; Gyan Singh on tabla, dholak and mridangam; Rajat Kakkar on drums and percussion; Indraneel Hariharan on bass guitar; Sachin Kapoor on keyboards; Karan Sharma on guitars; Qadir Niyazi on Sufi vocals; and Sukriti Sen on Hindustani vocals.
Mrigya is turbo charged Indian fusion of the highest caliber.
More at http://www.mrigya.com