The brainchild of Abhijit Banerjee, one of the top-ranking musicians of India , TARANG focuses on Indian percussion. The concepts of mixing popular Indian percussion instruments like TABLA, PAKHAWAJ, and KHANJIRA etc. with the foreign instruments like KAJON, KONGO, TUMBAK etc comes out uniquely.

The uniqueness of Abhijit's compositions lie in using different Indian Rural folk instruments like KHAMAK, EKTARA, MANDIRA, SHRERKHOL etc., from a totally different perspective. The prefect blending of these forgotten rural folk instruments with the modern wide range of sounds and melody creates a new dimension.

This is the first time that Indian Folk instruments will be presented in the JAZZ world from a different perspective. In this music, Abhijit has skillfully managed to avoid drums, which is a main feature of most of the modern fusion bands. Although he is basically an Indian classical musician and his internal rhythm is definitely very much Indian Classical, his long associations with the eminent personalities of world music has given him enough experience to compose which is not only catchy but classy. With TARANG, he satisfies the musical need of the generations who are interested in world music and at the same time also give them a tinge of what is our culture.

The core team consists of

Abhijit Banerjee
Team leader, composer, tabla , Pakhwaj, percussion and vocal

Snehasish Majumdar
Mandolin, Double neck , Banjo

Somnath Roy
Ghatam, Khanjira, folk percussion.

Goutam shome
Key Board

Rajashekar
Morsing

Possible guest artists
( depending on concert, country and venue)

Amyt Dutta
- Guitar

Keny endo
- Taiko Drum

Kundan Saha
Thumba- Bangla dhol and folk percussion

Shubhayu Sen Majumdar
Esraj