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ShareMumbai: Rahul Sharma who is all set to perform at the One Music One World concert wants to use music as a means to bring people closer. Rahul will play a range of genres at the concert -- from the folk music of the Himalayas to jazz compositions. And to accompany him will be a Rabab (a rare Kashmiri instrument) player to add to the pahadi sound.
"Music all over the world has the same seven notes. There are similarities between folk music from all parts of the world. So one can say that music has only one language and it reaches out to people from all over the world," says Rahul who is gearing up to perform at the NCPA tonight.
Rahul who has tried his hand at almost every genre with the santoor will also perform pushto (Afghani) songs too. "I have dabbled with many genres in the 45 albums I have worked on so far. But at the end of the day it is one music, one world," says Rahul.
But now Rahul, who has been primarily known for his fusion music and experimentation with the santoor, is looking at releasing a traditionally classical record. So his next release will be a live album of his performance with Ustad Zakir Hussain during a concert in San Francisco.
"People say that I constantly do fusion. But at the end of the day I am a trained classical musician and I love performing pure classical music. So my next album is a pure classical CD. People feel that I keep experimenting, but I realised that my classical work needs to come out too."
