A medley of world music in Hyderabad

When Limor Ballas from Israel took the stage, the small yet attentive audience at Lamakaan had not the slightest clue of the musical journey that was to follow. With Soumalya Sareswari from West Bengal on sarod, vocalist Gopika Jairam from Kerala, Adheer Sahgal from Hyderabad on the didgeridoo and the multi-instrumentalist Rahul Singh from South Africa, the world of music was on stage.
The evening began with Limor on the guitar as she sang a couple of her own compositions in Hebrew with slight instrumentalisation from the rest of the crew. Her rendition of Janis Joplin’s Trouble in Mind, supported by instruments like the sarod and mridangam was the track that really got the audience grooving to the fusion tunes.
Gopika followed Limor with Carnatic classic Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma and film songs like Aromale. Adheer then took to the stage with the aboriginal and the fascinating didgeridoo that infused the night air with positive vibrations.
But the best of the night was yet to come as Soumalya on the sarod and Rahul who juggled between ghatam, mridangam and darbuka took centrestage. Their jugalbandi marked the perfect end to an eclectic evening.