Music producer and one-half of NYC’s musical sons, Metro Area, Darshan Jesrani takes a trip down The Rabbit Hole and hangs with Commonpeople to talk about the duo’s new album and staying true to their aural roots. Known to serve up a delectable dish of New York City’s finest sounds, Darshan’s inspiration flows from an [...]
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With globalization permeating deeper into the core of our everyday living, there are bound to be winners and losers. The sophisticated allure of a global playground - where instant gratification, connectedness, and universality have mostly prevailed - constantly seduces the masses into the global vernacular. This global power struggle inevitably eliminates many age-old traditions and [...]
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Commonpeople collaborated with MUX to present our first live-recorded performance. We have been fans of MUX ever since they started it a couple of months back, and we truly hope you will enjoy this performance as much as we did. We have always hoped to capture the creative dynamism of this band, but clearly, come [...]
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It’s late-afternoon in Newton Circus and rain is threatening to fall. Daniel, the blind busker, is standing solitary in the heart of the hawker center bashing out a mash up of tunes from the Beatles to the Mama and Papas and even a Japanese and Tamil ditty, complete with a series of idiosyncratic aural twangs. [...]
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Every society needs its bards, who can distil the spirit of the times and churn it out in the form of spellbinding lyrics, beats and melody.
Commonpeople kick it with B-Quartet, a Singapore-based band of brothers who blend progressive rock, metal, jazz and funk together with searing emotion and tight songwriting to create their personal brand [...]
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