Album: Attuned Spirits
Artist: Vasuda Sharma
Rating: 4/5
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Pepsi MTV Indies exclusively released Mumbai singer-songwriter Vasuda Sharma’s latest music video for ‘Maula’ on 12 August. The track is part of the independent artiste’s only album ‘Attuned Spirits’, which was crowd-funded.
Inspired by the observations of Saint Kabir, the famous poet, ‘Maula’ is in its own way unconventional and insightful. The track clearly puts across a message about how people are losing perspective in life, getting attuned to fast-paced changes, through a father-son story. The music video has been brilliantly shot by Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy, with smooth transformations from black and white to colour. Shooting the video in black and white emphasises the gravity of the issue – abandonment of senior citizens, moving on in life and letting go of things that matter. The message has been put across beautifully, resulting in an extremely touching and poignant three minute video.
Sharma’s strong and melodious vocals transcend the listener into another realm of serenity, at the same time, maintaining the somber mood of the song. It begins with a tenor ukulele section, rhythmically fusing with other instruments, leading to powerful bass lines. Midway, the addition of the violin adds significantly to the depth of the song, giving it a heavy and dark tone. The song shows heavy Hindustani Classical influences combined with fusion folk. The instrumentation of the song sounds like a perfectly synchronised orchestra with the use of a variety of instruments including the veena. The entire video is a well packaged box of emotions flowing throughout, capturing the idea through extremely neat cinematography. To sum it up, the music video has done justice to the eloquent and expressive composition by Sharma.
Sharma, who rose to fame with her pop band Aasma in 2003, released her album in 2013 which consists of songs ranging across different musical genres and collaborations with people from Jordan, Palestine, Turkey, Canada, USA, Croatia, Egypt, Israel and India.
