Prithvi Chandrasekhar grins when asked if he’s a musical prodigy. After all, he started playing the piano when he was eight, and by the time he was 11, he was already performing in concerts. “Since school, I’ve had several bands. There was no dearth of those,” laughs Prithvi.
Before he bounded off to Berklee College of Music in Boston for an undergraduate degree in Music, he did a stint in Loyola, studying English literature, during which time he belted out some tunes with city-based musicians David Pascal, Benny Dayal, Andrea Jeremiah and Ameeth Thomas of Junkyard Groove, among others.
“I interacted with so many musicians at that time; today is a product of all that,” says Prithvi, who is out with his latest single, ‘ Aa Bhi Jaa ’, featuring Benny Dayal.
“Benny and I go back a long way; we used to perform together for college culturals,” says Prithvi, and adds that it was great fun to work with the singer because there was so much to catch up on.
The song, which released last week, was written over two years ago during a jamming session with guitarist Siddharth Srinivasan. He invited Benny to sing the song, produced the music and then, shelved the project. Not just once, but multiple times. With all that was keeping Prithvi busy — Krem Brûlée, his production outfit with Andrea Jeremiah; music production work for movies and bands; and his production studio, Krimson Avenue Studios — he just couldn’t find time to work on the song till the end of 2014.
“It was a good song and it was just sitting there. So I decided to take the vocal stem and remake it,” says Prithvi, adding that this time, he wanted to give it a new vibe.
It took five days to shoot the video, and editing took another two weeks since the video has no story line. The electro pop single, which is currently on YouTube, is full of energy with peppy colours and bouncy tunes. It’s for “easy listening and easy watching”.
“When you produce music for a film, you know for sure that it’s going to hit the screens and many people will watch it. But if you’re producing your own independent single, you just have to do it for the love of it,” he smiles.
