Keshavara

In the organizer's words:

Keshavara wear magnificent moustaches, bold headgear and speak an adventurous patois of English, Hindi, German and Gibberish. On their new album III, the Cologne-based band led by German-Indian musician Keshav Purushotham create sounds the way other people mix drinks after they've already enjoyed three: Washed-out kraut-pop and diasporic dub-not-dub excursions are combined according to
combined with each other and shaken wildly. Sugar-sweet meandering melodies, borrowed from a fantastic no man's land in the border region between exotic library compositions and psychedelic soundtracks, merge with the grooves of a rhythm section that would have felt right at home in the recording studios of funky Beirut in the mid-seventies. The result is cocktails topped with a surrealistic sugar rim with the effect of hallucinogenic Jell-O. Music that shimmers and flickers like a mirage in the desert. One moment Keshavara sound as if Ennio Morricone had set a Bollywood film to music, and the next like an Eden Ahbez song produced by Curt Boettcher, or - not quite as spinous but no less fantastic - as if Khruangbin and Sven Wunder had finally recorded an album together. In the most brilliant moments, it all comes together as if by magic, culminating in songs like Spiegelmann and Tableau Vivant - phantasmorgiastic parties full of transcultural clashes that invite us listeners to transform them into colorful group choreographies.

Keshavara evolved from a solo project by the German-Indian musician Keshav
Purushotham. The initial spark was an artist residency organized by the Goethe Institute, which
to his second home in South India in 2013. In search of his roots
in Chennai, Pondicherry and Auroville, the first tracks of the debut album
Keshavara, which was released in 2016 via the label run jointly with his partner Steddy
Papercup Records, which he runs with his partner Steddy.
The great response to the album led to the formation of the ensemble Keshavara in 2017
with the core line-up of Keshav Purushotham (vocals, guitar), Niklas Schneider
(drums, percussion), Benedikt Filleböck (keyboards), Christopher Martin (bass).

If you fancy being whisked away to this musical wonderland, come to the beautiful Hebebühne on March 6 when Keshavara present their latest album.

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