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Marching Music For Every Thursday ISSUE 241 RS 40 9 OCTOBER 2014 23 cflZjg 2071 MARCHING MUSIC FOR THE DIGITAL AGE From soldiers playing in big bands to the music being reimagined with a modern touch, the month of October is set to be an exciting one for connoisseurs of jazz in Kathmandu Newsfeed k ckstart The ‘Lai Bari Lai’ Tour ! Date: 11 October, Time: 6pm Venue: Club25hours, Tangalwood, Tangal Contact: 9851055135, Entry: Rs.1000 Bipul Chettri, a singer and a songwriter from Kalimpong, NEPAL INKED! will be performing live in the capital on 11 October. The overwhelming response that he received for his singles Date: 17 to 19 October, Venue: Exhibition Hall, Bhrikuti Mandap Contact: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Asar, Wildfire, and Mountain High, motivated him to work on his maiden album Sketches of Darjeeling. Bipul currently Nepal Inked is a tattoo and lifestyle convention that brings ink enthusiasts of the nation under one works in the Art Department at Vasant Valley School, New roof. Taking place alongside Silence Festival V, the highlights of the event will be a tattoo seminar, vintage car show, art show, bike stunts, and live performances, to name a few. The second edition of Delhi. His tracks on SoundCloud have over 4,50,000 plays so Nepal Inked promises to be bigger, better, and more entertaining. far. The program is presented by 25 Hours Entertainment. EVENTS YOU DON’T WANNA MISS! WHAT YOU MISSED! OKTOBERFEST 2014 Date: 17 and 18 October, Time: 6pm to 10pm Venue: Hotel Radisson, Price: Rs.1800 net per person CELEBRATING DASHAIN WITH NCELL At the Ncell Mela, which took place Celebrate a festival of fun, food, and at Jawlakhel Ground, there was a beer at the beautiful Terrace Garden on good mix of rural and urban Dashain. The Ncell organized fair took place the fourth floor of the new Radisson wing. at eight different cities around Nepal, including Kathmandu. The price includes a lavish German buffet The festival had entertainers like along with unlimited supply of beers. jugglers, stilt walkers, magicians, and other performers, while food lovers were able to enjoy Dashain fares along with the traditional selroti. If you were there, you RECONCEPTIONS OF JAZZ would have enjoyed flying kites and Date: 16 to 22 October swaying on the swing. Darts, archery, and games like “Score the ball in Entry: Free, Contact: 9841549811 the bucket” kept the participants engaged, while children could be Reconceptions will offer locals and visitors in Kathmandu seen jumping on the trampolines. an opportunity to explore the different spectrums of jazz through electronic music. It will also provide a platform More fun was yet to come with the to up and coming local and international DJs, jazz performance of bands and artists musicians, and bedroom electronic producers who will such as Mukti and Revival, Sugam pay tribute to jazz heavyweights like Miles Davis, Herbie Pokharel, Deepak Bajracharya, Yama Hancock, John Coltrane, Gil Scott-Heron, and more. The Buddha, Jitu Nepal, Abhaya and the events will take place at several venues. One of the best Steam Injuns, Aastha B, and Everest elements of Reconceptions is its open table, where DJ’s Crew. The show was emceed by can walk in and play what they like. Raymon and Khusbu. POST US: Email event details to [email protected] or call 5011571/ 5011639/ 5011730/ 5011731 for listings. Listings are free but inclusion is not guaranteed due to limited space. 5 Kickstart//Getstarted Where Silence Dwells On 17 and 18 October, Silence Festival V, the biggest annual heavy metal event in the country, will take place at Bhrikuti Mandap. As with the previous four editions, in the lineup are a brilliant roster of Nepali and international bands. SAMYAM SHRESTHA ilence Festival is not a new name for anyone with even the faintest clue of the metal music scene in Nepal. The biggest gathering of hard rock and metal fans in the country, Sthe festival has brought a crazy roster of internationally renowned bands over the years, names that Nepali heavy music fans had barely imagined would grace these mountains just half a decade ago - Vader, Textures, and Behemoth, being a few of them. From this year onward, the festival will be twice as loud with twice as many bands, as it will run for two consecutive days. The headliner this year is the British act Sikth, a band with a bizarre approach to heavy music, who play an amalgam of diverse genres such as progressive metal, experimental metal, and mathcore. Sikth, along with the Swedish band Meshuggah, helped flourish the new-wave musical movement called Djent. Supporting them will be, as always, bands playing a variety of rock/metal genres. PAST HEADLINERS Band: Underside 2010 – Enigmatik: metal. Who would 2013 – Behemoth: Q&A: Bikrant Shrestha, Managing Director, Silence Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. The Swiss death metal have guessed they Adorned with outfit was the first would land in Nepal corpsepaint and Silence Festival will now take place over two days. How do you choose the headlining bands? foreign metal band someday? medieval-looking What led to the change? And, why Sikth? (excluding Kryptos from The outfits, Polish It’s all about crossing boundaries and pushing Choosing a headlining act can be difficult. India) to play in Nepal. 2012 – Textures: Dutch progressive heavyweights your limits. Sometimes you try to grow even if it Sikth is a big band specializing in modern 2011 – Vader: metalcore band was Behemoth had is really difficult. This year, we have tied up with metal, and there are a lot of contemporary Legends! One of the a pleasant offering everyone in awe with Nepal Inked Tattoo Convention, so there will be a groups imitating their style. We were lucky forefathers of the for modern metal their wicked set last lot of fun happening along with the music. enough to get in touch with them and they genre we call death enthusiasts. year. were kind enough to accept our invitation. The band lineup at the festival has always been I always wanted to bring Sikth to Silence versatile. Why so? Festival if they ever reunited, and here they We have always tried to mix the line-up so that there’s something for everyone. It is not easy in are now! This is their first show in Asia, BAND LINE-UP the case of the Nepali scene as metal fans are apart from Japan, so having them here is very special. 17 October very fragmented, but we try our best to cater to everyone every single time. Mahadev Cometo (Sui) There is also a pre-event band challenge BANDS What was the primary objective of the festival where the top three outfits get to perform at 13 Jindabaad the festival. What is its significance? when it was just starting out? Over the span of five Cheisrah (India) years, has the objective changed? Our aim is to support upcoming bands, and Divine Influence Our main goal has always been to promote our we do it without promotions. Hopefully, we will see more good outfits coming up in the The Exorcist local scene, and that we have been doing strongly in all conditions. It was initially to show the near future. Antyesti BANDS world that we do have good musicians and great Any do’s and don’ts for the festival FROM NEPAL bands out here too. We have already seen the attendees? 18 October progress with our bands. The objective will remain 8 There is not much to say as the metal the same as long as the festival stays alive and Sikth (UK) crowd is the most humble and sincere kicking. The Algorithm (Netherlands) group in the country; there is a great sense Underside When did you first envision organizing a festival of camaraderie. They know what to do and what not to. Anyway, just for the record, here INTERNATIONAL Tumbleweed Inc. so large? We never thought the festival would get this big. are a few rules: the security is going to very Kalodin I think it is all about time and the demands that tight, although even we hate that (laughs), BANDS DamageEra (Darjeeling, India) we have. We still haven’t been able to fulfill our and glass bottles and other sharp equipment 5 own vision but we are slowly getting to that point. will not be allowed. We will announce more Breach Not Broken Everything works over time, not overnight. rules on our festival page soon. Kickstart//Bibliophiles 6 Sushma Joshi is a writer and College, Vermont (USA). Her filmmaker. Her first book The End short films have been shown at of the World was longlisted for the different film festivals, including the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award Berlinale’s Talent Campus, on the Good editors in 2009. Art Matters was published Q and A with Riz Khan on CNN in 2008. She has a BA from Brown International, and the UN World University, and an MA in English Water Forum, amongst others. She Literature from Middlebury lives in Kathmandu. are hard to find SHUVECHCHHYA PRADHAN 1. What book are you currently to choose one I’d take Coleman of many years. I think all the reading? Why did you choose it? Barks’ translations of Rumi. reading I did from childhood was I am reading A Journal of the feeding into my writing. Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. 4. Is he your favorite author? I was at a summer program No. I read through the entire 8. Can you name one story at Brown University, my alma British Council library as a child.
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