It was a cool, misty night on Nov 8 2008 in Milpitas, California. Music was in the air. Two San Francisco Bay Area bands - BOOMM (Bunch of Oddly Musical Misfits) and Antariksh, deluged and delighted the audience with a wide variety of genres of Indian music - Rock, Pop, Bollywood, Kollywood, improvised semi-classical and adapted jugalbandis to shake their heads in agreement with the melodies and tap their feet; and also a lot of 'run of the mill' dheen-chak Bollywood numbers to shake their booties on the floor.
BOOMM went on the stage first. The BOOMM crew was as follows:
TN Arunagiri - Vocals/Percussions
Padmanaban Ramasamy - Drums
Rahul Nim - Lead and Rhythm Guitars/Vocals
Shantanu Swaminathan - Keyboards/Saxophone
Shwetha Pramod - Vocals
Sridhar Narayanan - Flute/Harmonica
Sunil Ramesh - Vocals/Percussion/Keyboards
B Vasant - Bass
BOOMM's song order (each title is hyperlinked to the respective streaming audio recording):
1. Dhoom Pichak Dhoom (Euphoria)
2. In Dino (Life in a Metro)
3. Breathless (Breathless)
4. Sax/Violin jugalbandi (Armaan) - BOOMM adaption with Guitar/Sax/Flute
5. Mann Ke Manjeere (Mann Ke Manjeere)
6. Aditi (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
7. Vellai Pookkal Improvised (Kannathil Muttamittal) - Tamil. BOOMM adapted it and added rhythmic and melodic improvisations to it, using the pentatonic raga Hamsadhwani (Huns-dhun).
8. Kholo Kholo (Taare Zameen Par)
9. Aaj Kal Tere Mere (Bramhachari)
10. Adiye Kolluthe (Vaaranam aayiram) and Punnagai (Alai Payuthe) - Tamil medley
11. Tauba Tauba (Kailasa)
12. Socha Hai (Rock On)
Videos of the all above songs are available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/rhnimu2
The Antariksh crew was as follows:
Amber Sharma - Drums
Anand Kannan - Vocals
Anuja Bellare - Vocals
Mahesh Kumar - Bass
Prasad Bhandarkar - Flute
Pronob Ashwin - Keyboards
Rajesh Harekal - Vocals
Satyajit Sahu - Guitar
Antariksh's song order is given below. I do not have access to individual audio tracks. However a few videos have been uploaded by Anand. Go here for videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/anandk199
01- Mit jaaye (Kidnap - rock version)
02- Alvida (Metro)
03- Naina (Omkara)
04- Sanwal (Mekaal Hasan Band)
05- Yeh tumhari meri baatein (Rock on)
06- Mobius Strip (Antariksh)
07- Yeh Sama (Antariksh)
08- Never (Antariksh)
09- Jhok Ranjhan (Mekaal Hasan Band)
10- Tere bin (Atif Aslam)
11- Sinbad the sailor (Rock on)
12- Zehrille (Rock on)
13- Dard e Disco (Om Shanti Om)
14- Sajnaji (Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd)
15- Mauja hi mauja (Dus Bahane mix) (Jab we met)
16- Beedi (Omkara)
17- Desi girl (Dostana)
Last: Bhool Bhulaiyya (B.B.) performed with BOOMM.
Last but not the least, the Sound Engineer by whose grace we have the recordings today is Ramana Turlapati. Thanks a million to Ramana's 'sound engineering', we had great sound from the stage monitors - it was a sheer pleasure to perform for a wonderful audience!
