Guitar Hang with Nikhil Rao - Episode 7

Episode 7 of the series Guitar Hang with Indian Ocean's guitar player Nikhil Rao
Roday featuring Vishal Dadlani • Rodey
Roday video • Video
Making of Roday • Video
Tandanu Jukebox • Video

[@rahulram9569]

The opening song, which I learnt from a young Bhil woman called Jimli while riding in a jeep in the Narmada Valley in 1993, is a straightforward adivasi song, which says "I am sitting by the roadside waiting for my sister to come by a bus. Plant trees on the roadside, so that I can sit in the shade and wait for sister". I was returning from a village called Turkheda in the Gujarat part of the submergence zone of the Sardar Sarovar Project. The village doesn't exist any more... so the idea was a song that is from places where people have been displaced from. The very many types of displacement that people in India have faced, involuntary as well as voluntary, is sought to be expressed in this song.

[@DocStarBhargava]

Big fan of you sir.!

[@JakeSavich]

Beautiful channel brother

[@dnikhilrao]

Thank you so much Jake!

[@rohitkrishnan9727]

Indian Ocean songs usually have a great stories attached to them. The journey of this particular song is probably my favourite! I remember watching a video of Indian Ocean practising this song in the Khajoor Road practice pad, where the verse still melodically existed the way it is today, and uncannily the counter melody that Susmit ji would play for the verse sounded very similar to the tune of what is today “Assa ruande ruande ghar chhadya”! Roday, from being a very passive song back then, and today with the blues guitar solo having jumping notes across octaves, I think the guitar parts are possibly very angsty in what it is trying to say! The second guitar solo before Kashmiri bit, somehow symbolises an angry-chaotic cry, in my head.
Also one distinctive Roday memory - NH7 Weekender 2014! What an outstanding evening that one was!!

[@dnikhilrao]

Thanks for that beautiful take, my friend. I regret not having covered the 2nd guitar solo in this video. I used a 12 string acoustic for that piece and the solo was almost entirely suggested to me by Amit! He hummed the tune for me and I made a short solo out of it.

[@deepeshjotwani9]

This is so beautiful thank you Nikhil :)
One question What is the tuning of guitar here ?

[@dnikhilrao]

All strings a whole step down.

[@DocStarBhargava]

Nikhil tuning of your guitar...for most of the songs of Indian ocean.....EADGBE?

[@dnikhilrao]

A whole step down from there

[@DocStarBhargava]

@@dnikhilrao all 6 strings..?

[@dnikhilrao]

Yes all 6 strings!

[@rsquareproduction1098]

Sir mai raj singh apse mai jabalpur me narmada kumbh me mila tha or apna card bhi diya tha.. ye mera song suniyega

[@suneelm1851]

amazing guitar work.but with electric guitar, the solo could be straight real rock.

[@mohitbhatt2461]

Gosh, tuning is full step down 🤣