Day 2: Koliwada Idol
By Paul Devro | March 21, 2008
After a couple days being in India, Dharavi has officially beat down all my electronic equiptment. The cell phone i brought is totally broken, my computer doesn’t burn cd’s anymore, my travel power converter is blown and right as i was backing everything the power supply my external hard drive audibly blew too. So now i can’t access my external drive at all, I hope the drive isn’t screwed other wise i lost about 100 something pictures and some recordings. But either way things are still great.
Today Knokhi came up with the idea that we should set up somewhere in the street and record some singers. So we set up a table on the stage at the cricket field and thus was born “Koliwada Idol”. We had some great singers even a spell casting transvestite unic laid it down, but i had to give the prize to this little kid that sang 4-5 songs with snot rolling down his upper lip the whole time. After that I realized i need to get more cables and such so we went to the Electronics District on Grant Road. So much sweet bootleg gear and like 5 stores dedicated exclusively Remote controls??? After that we got invited to record a large group during the night. We wrapped up at 1am, all got served ice cream then they threw some baskets in the middle of the street, lit them on fire and we danced around them till they went out then called it a night.
***Word to Joesph for use of some of his pics to help me fill in the blanks.
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6:21 am on April 23rd, 2008
hi
so cool ! i did just the same kind of stuff last year in Bangalore ( south india ), check the song “kannata” on my myspace page, a 8 year old indian girl is singing over a billy squier’s “big beat” inspired track :
http://www.myspace.com/rockyrock1