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Will Smith invites Neel Murgai and over 30 other musicians to perform a remix of the classic theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. - “Performers will include…the sitarist Neel Murgai.”
Review of Neel’s solo overtone singing/looping performance at 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY on Feb 17, 2019
“New forms are being created that are indigenous to Brooklyn,” - Neel Murgai
NPR Music premiered BRM’s Terry Riley In C Music video. “For Neel Murgai, the group's sitar player, Riley's music fosters civic pride and a sense of togetherness. "For us, playing Terry Riley's In C has always been about bringing the whole community together to play exquisite music," he tells NPR”
"There are precious few opportunities to enjoy a frosty beverage while slipping into the transcendental time warp of a classical Indian raga — which makes the Brooklyn Raga Massive's peripatetic Wednesday night events kind of like the Alamo Drafthouse of Indian classical music.”
“Mr. Murgai, 44 years old, hails from an Indian family but grew up in Poughkeepsie, where he came to love music by studying guitar and trombone. “There was no one teaching sitar around me,” he said, noting that he only picked up the Indian stringed instrument after college. While doing independent research for his master’s degree, he said, he read about Terry Riley and listened to “In C” on YouTube.” - WSJ