Keshavara

KESHAVARA "Moondram Sevi"

KESHAVARA prefer to look for their coordinates in a shimmering world rather than on a map: somewhere between Cologne and South India, between Kraut Pop, psychedelic soundtracks and an adventurous patois of English, German, Tamil and Gibberish. On "Moondram Sevi", the fourth album by the band led by German-Indian musician Keshav Purushotham with Niklas Schneider, Benedikt Filleböck and Christopher Martin, this intermediate realm opens up even further. The title, "third ear" in Tamil, leads to a place where memory, fantasy and a few misunderstood movie scenes get mixed up.

The first single will be released in July. It is inspired by the Kollywood films that Keshav made in his childhood in India with his cousin Sahana Nareshsah. On the track, Sahana sings in Tamil about a fictional character from one of these brightly sparkling parallel universes. String machines, 12-string guitars and the grooves of a rhythm section that would have felt at home in the recording studios of funky Beirut in the mid-seventies are combined and shaken wildly. The results are cocktails crowned with a surrealistic sugar rim, shimmering and shimmering like a mirage in the desert.

After "III" took the Cologne band to European festival stages, a first extensive European tour, alongside Khruangbin and Grandbrothers and most recently to Scandinavia, they will be touring Europe again in October with "Moondram Sevi". On stage, this will not be a concert evening in the usual sense, but a colorful trip through their own pop kaleidoscope: magnificent costumes, bold headgear, sugar-sweet meandering melodies, reverb-soaked corridors and four musicians who drive their songs into ever new side arms with the fabulousness of cunning sound alchemists.

"Moondram Sevi" will be released in October. In the same month, KESHAVARA will go on tour in Europe with the new album.