We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and it kind of goes over people's heads; they don't understand it.
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
I wasn't a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived 'cause it made things seem more normal.
There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.
I love to simplify the ragas and use them in my music as much as possible.
People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.
I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.
