Palash Sen Feels Non Musicians Call The Shots Over Music In The Country, Worries About Freelance Musicians During Lockdown
Palash Sen Lashes Out At The Music Labels
Indie Pop musician Palash Sen of the hugely famous ‘Euphoria’ band has been off the mainstream space for a long time. However, as he admits he has never been away from music. He had been gigging all the while but was not in front of the mass mediums!
The musician is coming up with something absolutely new. Well, according to Palash, when an artist is not part of the film industry, his brain opens up even more because in the film industry one’s brain is controlled by someone else. Palash states, that this venture on ‘Likee’ is one of a kind where he has to sing a song for just one minute and it also has to be accompanied by a one-minuter visual narrative. The singer has shot for the film, rather directed it from his own house and his son Kinshuk too is part of the video.
Palash who has been immensely successful as an indie musician with Dhoom, Maaeri so on and so forth rues about the state of the music industry in India. He says we are not being able to come up as we used to because, “We have no label backing us, we are completely left to fend for ourselves.”
He goes on to elucidate on the big issues that haunt the music industry of which people are quite aware but prefer to be tight-lipped. “The biggest problem for indie artistes in our country is that they are looking for someone to come forward and put in money for their efforts and many of us don’t have that. After the early 2000s, all the money was diverted only to film music. Euphoria and the Indian Ocean are just two bands who have been gigging without film music at all. Now since all the money is being diverted to film music. How will the non-film music even exist?" He questions.
Palash goes on to further reveal another pertinent point that needed to be brought out in the open. He says music is just a part of Bollywood and not even a separate organised entity, in fact, he stresses on how there is no existence of any music industry, contrary to the popular belief. “This country has a film industry of which music is just a part so where is the music industry? And if there is no music industry what will happen to all the freelance musicians of which there is a bigger quantity in this country than there is for the film singers.”
Palash further went on to mull over the plight of these indie-artists during the lockdown. He questioned how are they going to fend for themselves especially when the shows will not happen till another 6 months! “There are folk singers, there are people who sing in small pubs and in hotels, what about all of them? Who is going to take care of them? Now, people are making these huge donations, but if there is a guy who is a freelance musician and he does small gigs in hotels and earns his money, how will he earn now? Because all the hotels are shut! Everything is shut! The shows will not start for at least 6 months more. Nobody is worried about it because we are not part of an organised industry.” He asserts.
Palash also stated brazenly that it is the following of a dogmatic way of working, following a herd-mentality that is actually the main reason for all of this. He further asserts on how today, the music studios dictate the terms and conditions with people who know nothing, absolutely nothing about music. “The thing is the herd mentality plagues India. An audience deserves all kinds of music. Let the audiences choose why should labels or people who are in control of music just shove down music that they think is good? Today just three to four music labels decide what kind of songs artistes should come up with. The thing is the shots are being called by people who are not musicians and by people who think whatever they are doing is the right way to do it but only because they control the money and the power." He concluded.
Updated: May 29, 2020 12:54 AM IST
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