Harvard Tufts BU Music Trio

I wrote about my musical sojourn to Wesleyan University, the journey continues, now it is local, Tufts University.

I met up with three vibrant young musicians couple of days back. Saish Gunturi, a student at Tufts University and a savvy guitarist, Swarup Swaminathan, a Masters student at Harvard University and an avid Harmonium and Piano player and Abhinav Thirunagari, a student at Boston University, singer and Tabla player.

We met in one of the cozy corner music rooms on the Tufts campus. I was inspired to see the bulletin boards and walkway leading up to the music room were filled with artistic event flyers. We quickly settled down and worked on the music pieces.

The best part of this jam session was that we spent few minutes talking about what to do and a lot of minutes just doing it, in line with Nike’s slogan! There is beauty in just doing it, especially when it comes to music and art, it works wonders. All of the recordings were impromptu and the improvisations were spectacular. Listen to the piano and guitar playing off of each other hand in hand in this bhajan Chitta Chora and the elegant tabla beats trickling in like the rain drops on to a thirsty plant.