Keshavara – live
Slip on some magnificent robes, put on your sunglasses, grab a sticky-sweet cocktail and open your hearts wide – that’s the best way to prepare for when KESHAVARA reveal their souls at the Musikbar im Bunker with their new album, “Moondram Sevi”.
KESHAVARA prefer to seek out their coordinates in the haze 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 the German-Indian musician
Keshav Purushotham – featuring Niklas Schneider, Benedikt Filleböck and Christopher Martin – this in-between realm opens up even further. The title, which means ‘third ear’ in Tamil, leads to a place where memory, imagination and a few misinterpreted film scenes become intertwined.
The first single is due for release in July. It is inspired by the Kollywood films that Keshav watched during his childhood in India together with his cousin Sahana Naresh.
On the track, Sahana sings in Tamil about a fictional character from one of these garishly glittering parallel universes. This is accompanied by string machines, 12-string guitars and the grooves of a rhythm section that would have felt right at home in the recording studios of funky
Beirut of the mid-seventies, are combined by eye and shaken vigorously. The result is a series of cocktails crowned with a surrealist sugar rim, shimmering and shimmering like a mirage in the desert.
After the album “III” took the Cologne-based band to European festival stages, on their first extensive European tour, alongside Khruangbin and Grandbrothers, and most recently as far as Scandinavia, they’ll be heading out again in October with “Moondram Sevi”
across Europe – and, of course, to Schleuse Zwei!
On the stage of the music bar in the Bunker, don’t expect a concert evening in the conventional sense, but rather a colourful journey through their very own pop kaleidoscope: magnificent
costumes, daring headgear, sugar-sweet meandering melodies, echo-drenched corridors and four musicians who, with the storytelling flair of shrewd sound alchemists, steer their songs into ever-changing side paths. (Source: Bilker Bunker gGmbH)