A Night of Live Electronica ft. Curtain Blue & Sid Vashi at Bonobo, Mumbai

Curtain Blue, known to his peers as Abhishek Bhatia is a formidable talent in the Indian musical circuit. He is known for his fractured beats, commanding vocal delivery and unique melodic sensibility, drawing inspiration from forward thinking alternative electronic outfits like Radiohead, Apparat, Moderat and Jon Hopkins.

His ‘Drones’ EP saw him travel as far as London as part of an Indian showcase at Alchemy, Southbank Centre’s annual festival showcasing the best of dance, music, theatre, design, fashion, comedy and literature from the UK and South Asia. This was alongside a show at Brighton’s renowned Great Escape Festival.

Sid Vashi is a producer and multi-instrumentalist from the suburbs of Detroit, currently residing in Mumbai. Having grown up with a deep love for bollywood music and jazz saxophone, Vashi crafts textural electronic pop music that incorporates elements of jazz, experimental electronica, and hip hop, often using samples from old Indian records and field recordings from around the country. His 2013 debut LP entitled ‘Motherland Tourism’ garnered praise from influential webzines such as The Wild City and THUMP by Vice, and set the framework for his upcoming material which is due early this year. In the interim, Vashi has recently begun performing a combination of old and new material with both live and electronic instrumentation, having already played at many major festivals and venues across the country. In 2016, he plans to release a bevy of new original music as well as collaborations with other artists in the independent scene.