Tarun Balani

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Tarun Balani is a drummer, composer, percussionist and music educator living in New Delhi, India. In 2012, at age 27, Tarun released his debut record “Sacred World”, which has been said to “point to the future of jazz in India.” Tarun’s music is driven by a restless desire to be a holistic artist, inspired by his Indian roots and synthesized into his work. An inward and spiritual experience for Tarun, music has had a very special impact on his life, in finding his voice through the drums, and then in building a career in performance and teaching.

News

Exclusive First Listen: Tarun Balani Reflects On His Sindhi Roots On 'Lajpat Nagar Sometimes'

Tarun Balani has been expressing his artistic voice through two parallel channels: his solo live-electronica, which in the past years he had put forth via the project Seasonal Affected Beats, and the...

Seasonal Affected Beats Announces Debut Album with Single ‘Chance and Electricity’

New Delhi-based drummer, composer, percussionist and music educator, Tarun Balani, as his moniker, Seasonal Affected Beats, recently released a new single ‘Chance and Electricity’ from his...

Tarun Balani Builds Upon Audio-Visual Collaboration With Parizad D On Seasonal Affected Beats' 'Risalo'

New Delhi-based long-standing musician Tarun Balani recently released his new single 'Risalo' under his electronica moniker Seasonal Affected Beats. In his listening session for the single, Balani...

Marta Del Grandi & Luka Join Tarun Balani On Seasonal Affected Beats' New EP 'In Song'

When prominent Indian drummer-educator-composer Tarun Balani reshaped his amalgamation of live electronica and jazz, under his moniker Seasonal Affected Beats (SAB), for a gentler excursion on...

NH7 Weekender Announces Hiatus Kaiyote, Prateek Kuhad, Duckwrth & More For Its Virtual Edition

NH7 Weekender, the multi-city multi-genre festival will take place as a 2-day virtual event on December 5 and 6, featuring the likes of The Lumineers, Hiatus Kaiyote, Shruti Haasan (with Murthovic and...

Tarun Balani Functions At The Confluence Of His Past Musical Explorations On ‘The Shape Of Things To Come’

A year ago, Tarun Balani comfortably sailed at the forefront of India’s younger crop of jazz musicians with albums like ‘Sacred World’ and ‘Dharma’, an easy target for the label of...

First Look: Tarun Balani’s Music Video For ‘Dr. Escher’

This release isn’t the first time we have heard the opening pads of Tarun Balani's ‘Dr. Escher’. The New Delhi based drummer, educator and composer revealed the composition, in a very different...

Listen: Releases By Frame/Frame, Hoirong, PAV4N & More

‘Omerta’ By Abhi Meer Omerta EP by Abhi Meer In the same week when he offered nearly 20 hours of live streamed performance, DJ, producer, synthesist and sound artist Abhi Meer dropped a short...

Dengue Dengue Dengue, Pyra, Tarun Balani & More Announced For Second Chapter Of ‘Wild City: Together’

In April, we kicked off ‘Wild City: Together’ to create a space that can support growth and learning, and galvanise India’s music community in response to the alternative music space being...

Watch: 'Let The Light In' By Seasonal Affected Beats Ft. KAVYA

Tarun Balani's solo electronic project Seasonal Affected Beats bore fruit earlier this year with a debut EP '2°' (2 degrees) released in March, just days before the pandemic-induced lockdown. Though...

Features

"Speaking Back To History In Real-Time": Tarun Balani On How The India-Pakistan Conflict Weighed On His Album Release

When the Hindus from the Sindh region left their homes in the aftermath of the blood-soaked partition of India and Pakistan, growing concerned about their place in the effectively non-secular new...

2023 In Review

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2020 In Review

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Wild City Singled Out: Q1 2020

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Review: Tarun Balani Is Achingly Vulnerable On Seasonal Affected Beats’ ‘2º’

Growing up as a millennial in India (I’m talking a decade and a half ago) meant I spent my formative years considering rock, punk and jazz and their various guises to be the only genres worth paying...

Spotlight: Parizad D

Dedicating the month of March to the immensely talented women in our music community and to spreading awareness about female representation and inclusivity in the music industry, through a series of...

'I play jazz for fuck’s sake – it’s revolt music': Tarun Balani

The reason Tarun Balani is a jazz drummer and composer ultimately boils down to a technical error. Roughly 14 years ago in New York City, technology reared its ugly head and inadvertently changed the...