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

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...

Wild City To Host Listening Session With Seasonal Affected Beats

For our first Listening Sessions in 2020, we are showcasing the upcoming EP ‘2°’ by Seasonal Affected Beats, the trans-media electronic project by one of India’s most respected drummers,...

Wild City Celebrates Record Store Day With 3rd Edition Of 'Selectors'

Initiated in 2007, Record Store Day is an annual event, held on a Saturday every April, that celebrates the culture of the independently owned record store. With the aim of cultivating and supporting...

Watch: Tarun Balani Launches New Moniker & Trans-media Project ‘Seasonal Affected Beats’

Glitchy synths aren't exactly the first things to come to mind when one thinks of Tarun Balani. The drummer, composer and percussionist is best known for his work in jazz, punctuated by his debut...

Global Music Institute Announces Workshop Series

In anticipation of launching its Noida campus in 2017, the Global Music Institute (GMI) has announced a series of workshops, called In Conversation and Sonic Exploration in New Delhi. We’re happy to...

Features

2020 In Review

To fully grasp all that the year 2020 entailed, it’s important to briefly reflect on how things were at the start of it. India was seething with massive protests against its lawmakers, U.S....

Wild City Singled Out: Q1 2020

Wild City handpicks the most interesting one-off singles released by artists in South Asia in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to listen to your music, send the relevant info to...

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...