Motherjane insane biography rare
- More than a flash in the pan, MOTHERJANE continued touring around the Indian subcontinent, eventually releasing an album, 'Insane Biography'.
- The band's first album Insane Biography released in and garnered a huge fan following.
- They were new, original and they took the nation by storm.
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Motherjane
Maktub
Review Summary: Imperfect and uneven album that still manages to startle with its musical vision and originality.
The Indian rock-music scene has been in a state of advanced nascence for close to two decades now. Starting with bands like Indus Creed in the early 80's who sported typical pop-metal sounds and hairdos, through Euphoria and Parikrama and on to the current crop of bands, Indian bands have shown talent but not a whole lot of creativity. While admittedly I have spent some time away from the scene and was quite startled at the sheer volume of original, and often quite good, music that Indian rock bands have put out while I've been away, there is still a lingering sense of deja vu. That even though these bands aren't actually covering Guns N' Roses / Metallica / Nirvana / Nickelback / [insert popular rock band's name here], they're still trying to write songs that will connect with (hypothetical) audiences on an oh-I-like-that-because-I've-listened-to-stuff-just-like-it-before level. Occasionally however, a band like motherjane rises out of the m
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Kerala-based band Motherjane reunites after 12 years
Motherjane, a music band from Kochi, Kerala, has contributed significantly to the country's rock music scene. The band's first album Insane Biography released in and garnered a huge fan following. The release of their 2nd studio album Maktub in 2008 put them on the global charts and won multiple awards globally. Now, after a long break of 12 years, the band with its line up of Suraj Mani, Baiju Dharmajan, Deepu Sasidharan, Alan Santosh and Alloy Francis, is coming back with a live performance.
What inspired Motherjane to reunite after 12 years?
It was the culmination of many things. One important catalyst was a conversation I had with Baiju. We were on a casual call once and I just asked him how the music was going on. His answer to me was that he had stopped playing the guitar for a few months now. I was pretty shocked so I asked him why and he answered that he was saddened by how society treated musicians during the lockdown. It disillusioned him and as a result, he was considering focusing on other ventures. As someone w
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Motherjane
III
Review Summary: Epilogue or re-Introduction?
Motherjaneâs sophomore album, 2008âs Maktub, established them as leading lights of Indian rock and metal. Here, finally, was a band with the instrumental acumen to write prog as intricate as the western bands that Indian metalheads worshipped, coupled with a flair for Carnatic music that made their sound unmistakably and unabashedly Indian.[1] They were pioneers for a generation of musicians yearning for homegrown heroes; original and unique in a way that local bands rarely were. But a funny thing happened on the way to album #3. At the peak of their success the band fragmented, with virtuosic guitarist Baiju Dharmajan departing in 2010 followed soon after by vocalist Suraj Mani. The rest of the band soldiered on through the 2010s, sporadically releasing singles without their two most recognizable members and receding into the history blogs while bands like Skyharbor and Bloodywood picked up the torch of Indian metal.
However, it turns out Motherjane werenât done just yet. With vocalist Niranj Suresh an
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