“I didn’t get a deal with any major or even minor music company but I didn’t want to sit around waiting for it to happen. I decided to make it happen for myself so I put in whatever resources I could scratch up and the album happened,” said Radhika Shankar, who wants to only be identified as “singer or songwriter”. Her album Moira was launched last week, where she also gave a live performance.
“For several years I played in gigs with another band, karaoke performances were plenty. I also did voice-overs in advertisements. It was only when I reached my thirties that I started penning down songs,” she said, while explaining that Moira in Greek mythology means destiny or fate.
“The background score for my album has a mixture of sounds from the saxophone to the bansuri. The saxophone artist is from Atlanta while the bansuri is being played by a Mexican woman. I found them both on Twitter. My music is trip-hop, I think I am the only one in India who is making an English album without travelling abroad,” she said.
“Morcheeba, Massive attack, Zero 7 – these are some of my current favourite bands, but, of course, my all-time favourite is The Beatles,” she said. “I’ve tried to use different sounds in the album to make it eclectic, yet at the same time simple.”
