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The Ballad of a Superpower Lost

Superpower 2020, the new album by Indian genre-bending artist Lifafa is an instant classic, a creative mishmash of techno and Bollywood classical, all packaged tightly in a musical vision of defiance, a satire of a national superpower gone wrong. - by Karan Madhok.

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FutureDesi IndieSounds

What will be the dominant sound of Indian Indie Music in the 20s? Karan Madhok spoke to a number of established and up-and-coming artists to predict our sonic future.

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Wake Up and Listen

With ‘Jaago’, singer/producer Lifafa (Suryakant Sawhney) released a modern ‘folktronica’ classic. Here is The Blue Magpie’s track-by-track review of this 2019 album.

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