Tiny Desk Live performance : NPR

NPR Music’s Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These artists symbolize only a sliver of the cultural variety that exists inside the Asian American and Pacific Islander group.

For Sid Sriram and his band, enjoying loud is the norm. However in anticipation for this Tiny Desk, he turned the amount down whereas rehearsing for this distinctive acoustic setting. “When it will get quiet, you hear the subtleties, the background, vocal sounds and it even evokes new vocal concepts since you’re not listening to every thing, powered up all the way in which,” Sriram instructed NPR earlier than the live performance. “The drummers tried various things out, and with two, that may get actually chaotic typically. However the way in which they form of mesh with one another, every thing is dialed in.”

Sriram was born in Chennai, India however grew up in Fremont, Calif. When he was 3 years previous, his household taught him a South Indian classical, largely devotional self-discipline referred to as Carnatic music. Later, he found jazz, R&B and soul music. These types of music helped him uncover, discover and have a good time the entire spectrum of his id.

When you can hear these musical influences in these songs, what is basically putting is the benefit with which he molds all of them collectively. Add to the combo his highly effective but heat vocal high quality and the ensemble’s efficient layering of sounds. “That is why music basically encapsulates this concept that pushes are momentum,” Sriram mentioned. “I needed to determine how we may convey the spectrum of dynamic and good [music], and the easiest way to do it.” Search for his new album, Sidharth, coming this summer season.

SET LIST

• “Blue Areas”
• “Do The Dance”
• “Expensive Sahana”
• “Got here Alongside”

MUSICIANS

• Sid Sriram: vocals
• Aaron Baum: keys
• Evan Slack: guitar
• Gregory Fox: drums
• Adam Hurlburt: bass
• Alex Nutter: modular synth 
• Chris Egan: drums
• Devin Velez: vocals
• Mike Noyce: vocals

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Bobby Carter
• Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
• Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
• Artistic Director: Bob Boilen 
• Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel, Elizabeth Gillis
• Audio Assistant: Josephine Nyounai
• Animator: Kaz Fantone
• Tiny Desk Crew: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Body, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Pilar Galván, Jill Britton
• VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
• Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann