The band, brought together during a concert paying tribute to the Beatle’s ‘Sgt. Pepper’s,’ specializes in blending Indian classical music and jazz.
Friends and musical collaborators since middle school, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Prasant Radhakrishnan had talked for years about creating a band that could bring together their love of jazz and their deep training in South Indian classical music. When they launched the Alaya Project in 2017 it was the Beatles who finally brought the stars into alignment.
“I immediately hit up Prasant,” said Krishnamurthy, 35, from his home in Dublin. “Let’s give this a shot. I was really hearing accordion for the tune, too, and that’s when I hit up Colin Hogan, a Bay Area heavyweight. I’d known him through the scene, but the first time we came together was for ‘Mr. Kite.’ I like to tell people that at heart the Alaya Project is actually a Beatles cover band.”
Krishnamurthy kicks off the fall concert season with a duo recital 5 p.m. Sept. 18 at Chabot College with Vishnu Ramaprasad on navtar, a redesigned guitar that can navigate microtonal intervals.
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