Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Band...The Dreams...

In the Fall of 2006, amongst a diverse group of students from India that joined UIUC, came five 'young' gentlemen from different parts of the country to pursue doctoral studies in their respective fields. It was almost a year later when, at an informal social gathering, they discovered a mutual passion for music and Anubhooti was born!

Anubhooti primarily plays Indian music – both in traditional as well as modern form. Through our music, we aspire to represent the culture of the Indian sub-continent. The band comprises 5 musicians, playing different musical instruments. With traditional Indian instruments like the violin and tabla, Anubhooti’s music is representative of the Indian Classical music. Combining these with traditional western instruments like the acoustic guitar, drums and the keyboard, Anubhooti’s music attempts to present Indian music in its pure and popular form.

Believing only in what sounds good, Anubhooti does not restrict itself to any particular form, genre or era of music. The journey has just begun and there is so much to explore - to recreate and possibly to create something new some day.

Anubhooti is a confluence; Anubhooti is energy; Anubhooti is a whole new experience unto itself!

23 comments:

Sujit Bhosale said...

Looking forward to listening to Anubhooti ...
-Sujit

Anubhooti said...

Thank you for the support Sujit...Keep visiting the blog for updates on upcoming performances, and also for audio clips from past performances....

chandan said...

BoL for the upcoming performance this weekend ...

Anubhooti said...

Thank you Chandan....we need the best wishes of ALL our friends and well wishers for this weekend....

Viral said...

I really enjoyed your performance tonight at India Night. You're all very talented; I'm only disappointed that your violinist wasn't there!

Musings... said...

You guys were amazing at India Night!!! Your sincerity really showed through while you were singing! It was refreshing to see such enthusiasm after such a long time! Also, your (Atul Dixit) voice was very melodious!
It was amazing to see a reenactment of sayonni after such a long time! Good Job and definately keep it up!

Anubhooti said...

Thank you everyone for you support...We are glad to know that you liked our performance....we will need your good wishes for tonight's performance, as well as every performance that we are ever going to have in the future...hopefully we will be able to live up to your expectations...

Anubhooti said...

Once again thank you all for all the appreciation and love!

@ Viral - our Violinist, Aravind, returns next week and would join us with so much more of music.

@romantic enchantress - Thanks for such heartfelt words.

@ Maulik - dear friend, what makes you think that you'll have to wait until next year to hear us again ! lol... We're sincerely planning on hosting our own show soon, if we have your support and encouragement. Keep checking our blog and we shall make announcements of our upcoming performances.

Also, we shall soon be uploading some of our recordings on the blog.

We sincerely intend to make this place (read blog) exciting and interactive !

coolthinker said...

Awesome performance tonight! wonderful choice of songs..very professional..and so sincere and moving..just perfect!! I wonder if its possible to have a link of your performances somewhere online..

-Prasad

Sukh_UIUC said...

Hey Guys! U did an awesome job..keep it up guys. We are waiting to buy your CD...Hope to listen to you guys soon.

Sukhvinder and Gagan

Unknown said...

God u guys are amazing, as I've said that over n over again to Atul. I seriously dont have words to actually describe the awesomeness (if dat is a word) and purity of ur performances. and last nite was another beautiful feather added to ur caps.... u managed so beautifully even wid just three of u....
as always HATS OFF TO YOU FOUR!!!!
n as mentioned above, um def looking forward to your album...
n ya, i dont know whether u would mind or not but i made a vid of ur Sayonee performance last nite. Though my cam dint justify u guys so well, but its still beautiful...
shall i put da link here? its in my private youtube videos?
-Shweta

Anubhooti said...

Thanks Prasad, Thanks Sukhwinder and Gagan and Thanks a lot Shweta for all the encouragement and appreciation.

With such enthusiastic audience, even we enjoyed performing thoroughly.

Shweta, thanks a tonne for recording our performance. It would be simply awesome if you could send us the link.

Once again, we shall soon be uploading some of our recordings and possibly videos at this blog. And as far as coming up with a CD/Album is concerned, to be honest, we never ever thought about it. But with so many of you asking for it, I think we should definitely give it some thought.

To start with, we promise to upload (in the next fortnight) the recording of one of our very first original composition and would be looking forward to your feedbacks. And let's move from there.....

Once again, thank you so much!

Unknown said...

n Atul.... Autograph please!!! :)

Unknown said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmipwtiY12o

please check if this works....

Rajat said...

OMg...that was really really good. I am really waiting for the next performance so i can hear some of the other songs u guys have worked on.

Swati said...

you guys are really amazing!!!!! i loved the india night performance. and for the record, my roommate, who also went, was crying when you performed the song from taare zameen par--that's how good it was. the junoon song was also amazing.

Anubhooti said...

@Shweta-Thank you SOOOOOOO much for the video....It will greatly help us in reviewing our performance, and will definitely help us in improving in the future..

@Rajat-Thanks a lot for the support..Please keep visiting the blog for updates about upcoming performances..hopefully we will get a chance to play in front of you all before long....

@Swati--Thanks a lot...all we can say is, we are EXTREMELY HONORED after reading your comment. Our heart felt thanks to your room-mate. We promise that we will always do our best to put-up a pure heart-felt performance...

Musings... said...

I would recommend making an orkut or facebook group just to keep track of your fan following! It might be easier! The group could be a place where there would be constant updates and people would get those updates as opposed to always coming to the blog! They could be led to the blogs through the group if they have been updated!

You guys might already have this, but I just thought of it! If you guys think, it is a good idea! I can make one for you! :) Especially looking at your fan base since the past 2 days...it might be a good idea! :)

-Mahika

Anubhooti said...

Dear Mahika,

Many thanks for going all the way and thinking of such wonderful ideas for us! It is indeed a brilliant idea. We had always wanted to keep the conversation and interaction between us and our audience not just restricted to the performances, but even beyond that. The blog was the first step to achieve the goal and your idea adds another dimension to it.

The only request we have (and a very sincere one) is that it would be extremely embarrassing for us if you would call yourself our fan. We are nowhere even close to be worthy of such an honor, though we truly appreciate your heartfelt admirations for us. However, we always welcome 'friends' who share our interest in music and constantly encourage us to keep moving ahead and getting better. So, we would suggest to name such group/community as "Anubhooti friends' club" or "Anubhooti friends" or something like that, which will be an ideal forum for us to interact and have fun. Hope you get the idea.

There's another friend and admirer of ours who has also requested for a similar thing. So, let's do this. How about you create the community/group on facebook and let our other friend make a similar such thing on orkut!

Thanks and Regards,
Anubhooti

Unknown said...

hey i made da Anubhooti friends' community on orkut, here's da link
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=49250789
um trying to upload a pic, somehow um unable to do so rite now, but will keep trying.. meanwhile ppl join!!!

Unknown said...

videos for the performance at BSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiPoWmQFTuw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLAn3C3MBYI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hrvr1UEVjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kWRx6_yTZg


more r being uploaded... will post da links soon

coolthinker said...

thanks shweta for the link !

Unknown said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8ABjeq3GU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7SEhCsxgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx2J9wYvLS4


remaining three vids!!!