AkashA
My story on AkashA (“A” at the end in caps on purpose) is in today’s Sunday Times. You can check it out here.
What interested me about the group is how the members are muhibbah but aren’t pretentious in working in different elements from so many different musical background into a single whole. I’ve heard so many annoying takes on making music using different ethnic elements. I can’t get into what Reshmonu is doing these days. Zainal Abidin did a great job back in the day reinventing himself from rock lead singer into world music pop vocalist.
It’s always hard juggling so many different ingredients in a recipe and putting it together in order to get something that isn’t a mess. AkashA are one of the few acts who get this and do it beautifully.
As a matter of full disclosure, I’ve had the pleasure of working with AkashA’s Greg Henderson. He’s truly one of the real gentlemen in music. Ok, enough of the bromance.
