Foot-tapping good

Album: Business Class Refugees
Artist: EarthSync’s Kartick & Gotam
Price: Rs395
Rating: ****

What impresses you most about Earth-Sync’s Kartick and Gotam’s latest album Busine-ss Class Refugees is its ability to make you tap your feet to its beats. It’s an eclectic mix of local music from around the world with electro folk.

From the first track itself, the two musicians impress. In Bonjour, there is an impressive combination of strong vocals along with a heady punch of music, alternating between soft lilting music and then racing ahead to take the listener to an exhilarating rapture. Both the second and the third track, Tamil Bossa and Boye Boye have interesting beginnings. Tamil Bossa almost paints a vivid picture of water droplets resting on a lotus leaf, quivering with every fresh breath of air.

The fourth track titled Heer transports you to the lush green lands of Punjab, the golden rays of the sun glistening on the walls of the Golden Temple, and you realise this music cannot be limited within geographical boundaries.

Shiva Sheva has a melancholy strain from the beginning, only to pick up the tempo as the music proceeds. The faint chanting you can hear amidst the background score lends an ethereal feel.  Door Open Door has good work on the sitar with an indigenous tune and a consistent foot-tapping rhythm.

Vellai Thaamarai is a strongly vocal-based track, a classical-based song that can be surprisingly peppy. Supreme Chaos picks up the tempo from the start, creating a quivering anticipation to explore the track further. Rututu often transforms to sound more like music you would hear in a dance club.

While most of the tracks never cease to amaze you, the last track is disappointing. Hear Comes the Funk doesn’t do justice to the tracks preceding it. We were almost wishing the grand finale would out-do the rest. But all in all, the album is a must-buy.