Ankur Pandey

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Join us with Ankur Pandey, our chief sound sculptor, as he shares his vision and thoughts for 'The Portal'

Refining, evolving, growing: everything sweet takes time, small steps of growth under the hood; new parts, melodies, ideas, new mistakes, new learning curves..#kaizen #babysteps #goamusic

We were forced to answer the callings of this life and wandered different ways. But the sound always calls us back. We’ve reunited again and we’re returning to the stage! Catch us live soon. Until then, here’s a video of us practising our track, ‘Falling Down’ in our spanking new studio

We are back together in a new configuration with @electronicfakir joining us on stage this time. We are playing our annual gig at our favorite venue @clay.goa /@theshed.in Come dance with us. Been long 🙃 #nectarise #electronicmusic #goamusic #goalivemusic #originalmusic

The Shed's been a space that’s helped so many come together. Not just professionals, but creatives, musicians, artists, poets and one such band that came to be, through this collaboration has been Necatrise. Individually comprised of some incredibly talented souls, this band straight from their first gig has had a unique sound which is unlike anything people have heard. All band members being the spiritual seekers that they are, help create a melange of psychedelic rock, funk, progressive and hypnotic sounds that compel you to move. Not just dance, but move. Don’t believe us? Here’s what the guys at RollingStone India had to say: “Piling on the grooves to a hypnotic degree...Manu Ananth spouting mind-expanding philosophies... personality and moods wedged into fist-tight baselines…” This Saturday, Nectarise returns to their birth place for their annual homecoming performance here at front yard, second time in a row and we can’t be any more thrilled than we are. And from what we’ve been told, there’s something very special they have planned for you. 07DEC / SATURDAY / GATES OPEN 8:00PM ENTRY: Rs.400/- (All proceeds directly benefit the artist)

A performance back in 2014, with Agu, a very sensitive, sincere and gently deep dancer, also my first butoh midwife (teacher), in collaboration with the brilliant @snehal__san , another supremely rooted, gentle yet deeply intense artist with a truly golden heart, at her art and sculpture exhibit called 'Uprooting the Aboriginals', in Pune. Snehal's partner in life, Varun, a very accomplished DP (Director of Photography)became a great friend during a lifechanging 2 month long documentary shoot in 2012, capturing the journey of Fakirs/Malangs/Miskeen and sufis coming together from all across the world at Bakhtiyar Kaki's Mazar in Delhi, to Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti's dargah in Ajmer. During the journey, my immersion with butoh emerged, and a couple of years later, snehal and varun invited me and Agu to do an art/butoh collaboration. This was the description of her exhibit at the time: “Our roots. Centuries of links that bind us to our lands. Accumulated memories. Nourishment, and entanglement. We have always been here, even before they arrived. But now, we must leave. Our roots are old, and not greedy enough.” “Uprooting the Aboriginals” is Snehal K Dutt’s second solo exhibition in Pune. Through a new body of work, Snehal continues to explore her interests in urbanisation and its impact on the changing dimensions of natural and social landscapes. Snehal K. Dutt's second solo show, Uprooting The Aboriginals opened from 26th May till 8th June 2014. This turned out to be a deeply enriching experience for all of us: audience included.

“A dream song ever heard in echoes, from far away.. Aching bones turning to dust, the doorway awaits inherent sorrow of beauty, tenderness lost to abrasion, the journey home, so far, in an instant, every instant.. Volcanic rage of grief, erupting belligerence, A lost child, a firefly roaming in the deep dark wilderness, A solitary tree standing on the edge of a mountain, seeing time, being time.. Time.” These were some of the qualia explored in the performance. Sub(conscious)body butoh entered my life in 2011. For the next 3.5 yrs, I immersed myself in this world, and the journey transformed me fundamentally. This performance was in Delhi, at the end of a year of intensive immersion and training at the Subbody Butoh School in Dharamsala.The stage was very small, and the setting was very intimate. The performance too, turned out to be so.. My teacher, and as we’d call it, midwife, Rhizome Lee, would always remind us: "Be life, Drop your mask of human/man/woman, drop your ego, become life". Subbody butoh is a dance of life: one doesn't move in Butoh, one is moved. Much of the practice involves quieting one's egoic mind, sinking into the multidimensional ‘darkness of body’, the subconscious, and being moved by the subtlest of subtle tendencies, whilst keeping a ‘transparent eye’: awareness of all the worlds one moves through, internally, and externally. 10 years hence, as I restart my practice, I am developing a deeper and deeper understanding of everything I learnt there with him, and other resplendently beautiful co-bodies, who shall always be close to my heart. I share this with deep gratitude to life, for having been so kind, even in her most intense. I have not been good at sharing/collating my work. So many albums,projects, performances have been lost to my listlessness and reclusiveness with the waking world. A dream-child's nightmare is never to have walked awake. As I come to life, I am collecting those lost threads, hoping to weave a tapestry through them..Hopefully my Insta communication would get better, as I share more works. TW: this might get intense for some, at certain points. https://youtu.be/F2fW9w8pMg8?si=OS7pZK11fKDIIE9p

When I asked the @electronicfakir what he does, he probably gave me the most satisfying answer that anyone could ever give, that was ‘Khaana, Gaana aur Hilna’ (Food, Music & Movement). Now, one would say to that ke bhai aur kya hi chahiye zindagi mai, what more could one possibly need in this life? The answer is love, and as the song suggests, with love comes great pain and suffering. After all, pain is inevitable..

There's always a fire burning..

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