SHREYA BOSE
AMOGH SYMPHONY
Depending on the album or track, you could transpose the music of Amogh Symphony to a rock opera, a
New French Extremity film or a meditation tape for headbangers. Avant-garde might seem like a pallid
descriptor, but it hints at the innumerable musical influences and specters that hover in their work.
It’s easy to intellectualize their music, given its genre-bending meanderings. But
the stories told in each song are immensely colorful and to the rightly inclined
listener, they reveal equal measures of ecstasy and despondence.
These songs require only the most devoted attention, and will do nothing for a passing listen.
The band is a collection of different minded individuals who find common ground in their
particular brand of strange thought. They also frequently collaborate with equally eclectic
musicians, always creating sounds which challenge, intrigue and sometimes intimidate.
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While you don’t label your work, how would you
talk about it to someone approaching it for the first
time?
Honestly, I would leave this to the fans
and listeners. I am cool with whatever
they call it. The music has no limit. All it
needs is an open mind.
If you treated Amogh Symphony’s music
as a metaphor, it would be a complex,
unbreakable creation that brings varied
types of people, ethnicities, cultures
under one giant roof, where language has
no alphabets and no scriptures. As long