ossory

Bangalore sung straight and at full pelt: a dual-voice folk-rock stomp on Karnataka drums that races from the boiled-beans founding legend and Kempegowda's four towers to broadband, Silk Board gridlock, and a lake that caught fire, insisting Lalbagh's three-billion-year-old rock has nothing on the traffic — one very reasonable request, swalpa adjust maadi.

L19 The Local Anthems Folk Rock (world/regional fusion — South Indian folk-rock)

Older Than Silk Board

Style

A fast, percussion-heavy South Indian folk-rock fusion at roughly 145 BPM, with thundering Karnataka dollu drums, chande and tavil-style rolls locked against a driving distorted-guitar riff, a reedy double-reed lead and folk fiddle weaving over the top, and a male and female vocalist trading verses in Bangalore-accented Indian English into big festival gang-vocal hooks.

Tags

  • #OlderThanSilkBoard
  • #Bangalore
  • #Bengaluru
  • #NammaBengaluru
  • #SilkBoard
  • #Lalbagh
  • #Kempegowda
  • #SwalpaAdjustMaadi
  • #IndianEnglish
  • #FolkRock
  • #KannadaVibes
  • #CityAnthem
  • #satire
  • #originalsong
  • #ossory