Chennai band Oxygen, which has accomplished 20 years, is out with The Metagen Project
Chennai band Oxygen, which has accomplished 20 years, is out with The Metagen Project
Chennai band Oxygen emerged from the lockdown stronger, due to their music financial institution.
The group’s newest musical providing, The Metagen Project, contains six songs set to completely different moods. While ‘Saraswathi’, the recently-released first track from the sequence, has Carnatic overtones, different numbers together with ‘Northern Lights’ and ‘Yin Yang’ convey collectively a number of parts of world music.
All the songs are from their music financial institution, which they revisited throughout lockdown, solely to find that that they had greater than 30 track concepts that weren’t executed but. Composer C Girinandh sprung into motion, at their Aura Studios in T Nagar. “The first song we took up was named ‘Fifth Dimension’. We work organically; while percussion ideas come in, I try to put in a melodic representation,” says Girinandh.
Things picked up as soon as different band members too began giving concepts. In order so as to add extra musicality to the venture, Oxygen roped in a 20-piece orchestra known as Tenor Strings, headed by Francis Rosario.
“Audiences usually connect with a singer. But, as we are a predominantly instrumental band, we wanted to explore newer ways of presentation. Lighting simulation helped us present our numbers better,” states Girinandh.
Most of the songs don’t stick to 1 style, however as a substitute undergo “lows and highs”, provides the band’s percussionist, KS Ramana. “The skeleton of our songs take about a month, and our mood changes within that time span, which in turn gets reflected in it,” he says describing album, which has been combined and mastered in Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio, and likewise graded in Dolby Vision.
The Metagen Project is particular for the band for it has simply accomplished 20 years. “Forming this band was like an inception point for many musicians, who have gone on to excel in music. It gave us the confidence that we could take up music as a career,” remembers Girinandh.
That confidence has solely grown within the post-lockdown section, with extra OTT gamers searching for newer musical types. “Since the pandemic, there are no regional boundaries. With the number of platforms coming up, our music — world music, on instruments — has a global appeal.” On the playing cards are completely different experiments with music, together with one that may contain liquids. “We are trying a concept of how a pattern gets formed in liquids when music is played near it.”
Source: www.thehindu.com