A band founded by Baan G ยท Produced by W.I.P Labs
A New Delhi art-rock band that turns poetry and theatre into rock shows: Faiz Ahmed Faiz's lullaby for a Palestinian child, an anonymous poem, Bhisham Sahni's play on Kabir. Visual artists, set designers and sound artists are part of the band alongside the musicians.
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Played in the round under a hanging projection screen, with the songs Mat Ro Bachche and Kaun Bataye?. OddBird Theatre (April 2019), National School of Drama (May), Studio Safdar (June) and LTG Blank Canvas with Little Theatre Group (August).
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A rock opera on the songs of Bhisham Sahni's play on Kabir. 50+ stages in 15 cities.
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The band's third show is being made now.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz's lullaby for a Palestinian child, set by the band and made into a film of shadow puppetry and animation.
The band's first release, in 2019: Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Falastini Bachche Ke Liye Lori, a lullaby for a Palestinian child that Faiz wrote in Beirut in 1980. The nine-minute video, with shadow puppetry and animation, follows a girl through the conflict zones of our time. Video by Anant Raina and Shupriyo Maitra, storyboard and animation by Ikroop Sandhu.
The second single, in 2021: a psychedelic Hindi rock song on an anonymous poem, with a crowdsourced music video. Recorded at Ghar Ka Studios with Ritwik De and Amar Pandey.
On Kaun Bataye?: Jagtinder Singh Sidhu (lead vocals), Sudheer Rikhari (vocals), Sumant Balakrishnan (guitar, vocals), Nikhil Vasudevan (drums), Shubhanshu Singh (guitar), Anirban Ghosh (bass), Varun Gupta (percussion), Pinak Mokashi (backing vocals).
Dastaan LIVE was founded by Baan G. Its shows are produced by W.I.P Labs. For festivals, venues and campuses, write to info@wipcollective.in.
Recordings will be on W.I.P Labs Music.
