Jukebox Ani & Grateful G

Saturday at BFlat was quite something.

Soundcheck, I met Arnab SenGupta, a musician from the city.
Woody Walden acoustic, elastic vocals, and Ninja for seasoning, a refreshing and infectious brew of George Michaels, Led Zepps, Billy Joels with original compositions.
I know all of us (me and cronies/cronies and I) thoroughly enjoyed it.

Then monkey and I went home, and then it rained, and when it rains for me, it pours...then scuttled about looking for rickshaws, then reached just a little after my scheduled time to perform.

So monkey, aka Jukebox Ani aka Anirudh, decided to join me for a few songs. We wrote a song on Friday night, Siamese Cat, quite impromptu, quite sudden, and quite my current favourite.

I forgot the lyrics to some of my older songs, but not this one, this one went smooth as butter.

Oooh that reminds me. Forgetting lyrics to songs is my new gimmick, helps me connect with other flawed creatures, makes them feel better...I promise...it works.

So Ani is a quirky songwriter, and his songs The Creature/Goblin Song, Caffeine Woman, and Mister Sunshine, should soon be up somewhere on the internet, and when they do debut somewhere on the internet, I'll make sure I share them with you.

His songs are funky and very stickable. I keep humming them long after the moment has passed.

And finally, I played a longish instrumental of mine -- Eclipse -- whose video I shall borrow from a friend and upload soonly. Typical response. Forks, spoons, plates, clunkaclunketyclunk, and yabababayabachompiddychomp.

But I expected that.

Sunday
So the next day at Sunday Soul Sante on Palace Grounds -- a huge hippieish market with colourful, whimsical stalls n all, but I don't know why they call themselves a 'flea' market, nothing's really that cheap, but like I said, the things on sale were colourful, whimsical and delicious to look at -- Ani and I played again, at the CounterCulture stage.

And this little girl became my no.1 Fan. She danced, she hugged, she kissed, she laughed...I loved her for loving me.

And there was Kavyanjali with Piyush, Meenakshi and Arpita from work, who made it even more memorable.

And three cameras for the four of them. Will seek Kavy's permission and send you links to her images, she's quite the clicker.

The gig itself was wishy washyish...an otherwise good sound was ruptured by the neighbouring Udaya award ceremony...but overall...it was fun having Jukebox Ani play with me.

Hang in there for his songs...they're on their way...