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EastWards at 26:42 Monkey Radio India - IndiEarth's 2013 Wrapup Cloudcast by Monkey Radio India on Mixcloud Track List: 1. Yidam – Ravivar Interlude 2. Aditya Pathak – Nirvana – The Ultimate Farewell 3. Ravi Iyer – Hamsadhwani 4. Jim Ankan Deka and Suchethan Rangaswamy – Eastwards 5. Project YUJ – Reethigowla Blues 6. Sez – Slayer 7. Tavleen Singh (T.A.V) – Flying Aura 8. Abiogenesis – Saramati Tears 9. Aditya Pathak – Joyous Breeze 10. Tetseo Sisters – O Rhosi 11. Nipun Nair – Kalyani Funk 12. Donn Bhat – 107 13. Madhusudan Singh Solanki – Om Joy Mantra 14. Sapta – The Sound of This Nation 15. Rhythm Method – Free Your Mind 16. Shivacult – Bengaluru to Yelahanka About EastWards EastWards is the 5th track from the album 'Timeless'. It's a fusion instrumental track. The song includes Carnatic classical Veena by Bangalore based playback singer and Carnatic classical musician Suchethan Rangaswamy and elements of Acoustic Rock music by Jim Ank...

It was long before I met Suchethan when I first wrote the song EastWards. I made a small video with photos of Nagaland (a North-East-Indian state) and needed background music. I am a fan of American guitarist Eric Johnson and the music for the video popped in my mind after listening to Eric Johnson and Jeff Skunk Baxter's acoustic duet . EastWards - Jim Ankan Deka and Suchethan Rangaswamy Later, when I met Carnatic classical vocalist and veena player Suchethan Rangaswamy from Bangalore, I thought of collaborating with him for my 2012 album Timeless . We made quite a few tracks before I selected EastWards for Timeless. As I already had the guitar part ready, I made him listen to it and asked him if he could strum his veena for the song. He showed his 20 years of devotion and magic as he went on playing the Indian classical instrument along with acoustic rock music. According to people who have heard the song - EastWards sounds like Indian Blues - whatever that means. But yup...