Yay !

I consider myself extremely privileged/lucky/very very lucky to have met Mr Mithun Puthanveetil, Drummer, Avial. :) :) :)

 

Avial had come down to Kyra , Indira Nagar,Bangalore for performing this Sunday Oct 25th and well , they blew us all away with their performance.Truly masterclass band with amazing compositional skills.

-- Along with their usual mindblowing Karukara,Nada Nada,Aadu Pambe , they also managed a fusion between the karnatic "Alaipayuthey Kanna" and the trademark avial sound.The singer Jyotsna (not the mallu fat woman :P .She was new to the circuit i think ) , blew everyone away with her mature and sweet brilliantly pitched (classical singers are so good at that) , rendition of the song :).Mindblowing...

 

-- The singer tony john went like this on the amazing 10 minute outro of this song -- " ari vachathu mathiyo ? ... njangal ethra venamengilum ari vekkum..." means " u think its cooked enuf (the rice ) ...? we can keep on cooking (rice , rice == ari ) ) .. #commonmalluexpression :P.

-- Rex and Benny (i think tat was the basists name ..sorry benny if tats not ur name :P ) , wer amazing..they too seemed blown away by jyotsnas prowess...

 

--- Totally amazing band given the fact taht they enjoy the music they play SOOO MUCH ! they can just play on and on and on ! The drummer must be doing like 150 pushups a day or something for staminna like tat !

 

 

Needless to say, my all time fav drummer (after lars of corz ..i v been following him on the headphones for 1 whole year ! ) , stood before me smiling, no celebrityness showing anywhere round his vicinity, and i went GA GA GA....Truly an inspiration he is and i hope i can play like that someday..

 

FK ALL THE MARKERS IN THIS WORLD AND FK BALL POINT PENS that dont write on wood...Otherwise i could have managed and autograph on my sticks also :( ....

 

 

 

I can go on and on about them .. but tat would mean some exaggerations turning into bragging and murder of whatever happened there yesterday......