Karan Viegas

Bombay-born, New York -bred composer Karan Viegas makes a special kind of music that is hard to put into words, which could explain why nobody talks about it. But if they could, they would almost certainly describe it as offensively imaginative & whimsically genre-fluid. His compositions primarily explore jazz, cinematic & world idioms, in an unsuccessful attempt to appeal to the Tiktok hypebeast generation. He has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone India, Berlin on Air, Wild City & Jazz in India, and radio stations like 94.3 Radio One and musomusoFM.

With a natural affliction for creating &#34;musicfilms&#34; or music videos with strong narrative concepts, he released his debut single <a href="spotify:album:2gULwTTeY524c9VIor2ZdP" data-name="Bicyclesong / The Triphonies of Kavi">Bicyclesong / The Triphonies of Kavi</a> in 2020, a three-movement genre-hopping score to visuals of a protagonist&#39;s bicycle adventures across the world. 2021 saw <a href="spotify:track:0ToyRDuZ6I4mrETdaL3HNW" data-name="Circus Freestyle">Circus Freestyle</a>, a socio-conscious theatrical hip-hop piece with a gorgeous animated video, featuring a leopard (<a href="spotify:artist:3P4yYdpOTSa94saSCZja7s" data-name="Smokey The Ghost">Smokey The Ghost</a>), a poacher (<a href="spotify:artist:5BLLk3x6XYj1N1UccT6AgV" data-name="Arshaq Malik">Arshaq Malik</a>), and Zulu chants from <a href="spotify:artist:5amFSbXGJhyBkx80AShqvN" data-name="Bongi Duma">Bongi Duma</a> (of the Lion King musical on Broadway). Love Theme for Moon Jellies and The Life Aquatic are both poignant and ethereal instrumental pieces that herald Karan&#39;s most authentic sonic fingerprint, to be expected on upcoming records.

Collaborators include <a href="spotify:artist:6VNQrUw4CZCOe7aSbeofFq" data-name="Oskar Stenmark">Oskar Stenmark</a> (of <a href="spotify:artist:25uPlxGvXMDy9eUX7oeDei" data-name="Brass Against">Brass Against</a>), <a href="spotify:artist:0TmInNPGLSWyopwB9XNa2s" data-name="Aleif Hamdan">Aleif Hamdan</a> (of <a href="spotify:artist:5FNnKXiFzI1DZTSnuhyJH4" data-name="Berklee Indian Ensemble">Berklee Indian Ensemble</a>), <a href="spotify:artist:5amFSbXGJhyBkx80AShqvN" data-name="Bongi Duma">Bongi Duma</a> (of <a href="spotify:artist:0s0Hfb6ckk9qTjDeUOZXJp" data-name="Ensemble - The Lion King">Ensemble - The Lion King</a> on Broadway).