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Film review: Shaa’ir + Func – Light Tribe (Blue Frog Records)
Videos: Shaair Func – Oops, Secret, Light Tribe (Live), The Lord Inside
Only three years old, Shaair + Func instantly caught the imagination of the alt public. Singer Monica Sharma Dogra from NYC and (Pentagram) guitarist Randolph Savio Rosario Correia burn the stage up with their brash, sexy, hard-hitting genre-defying music, what they the ‘love beat’. Rolling Stone magazine said “Once they hit you, there’s no getting off the dance floor”. Shaa’ir’s (Monica) onstage vocal and physical pyrotechnics and Func’s (Randolph) presence can electrify a live space.
Dogra, an NYU music performance alumni, has danced and sung her way on and off Broadway. Art school graduate, Correia, is ‘that crazy axe man’ from Pentagram and also works as producer and composer for film and television. Synth-heavy, blending poetry and some rabid guitar-work, their on-stage chemistry is heady. Not surprising then that the band have an enviable list of live performances around the world including the South Asian Band Festival, the Oya Festival, Cologne Pop Festival and Glastonbury!
Last night at a small open air, free-to-all gig in Mumbai, just before the biggest daddies of them all, Pentagram, Dogra, dressed in a choli, dhoti pants and coat-tails began moving her hips and arms ‘Indian-style’ … The crowd- unsuspecting older people, random passers by and hard core fans all stood up, several on their plastic chairs. As Shaair + Func hit their rhythm, the ecstatic, uplifted crowd cheered, danced and waved their arms. This is what music should do. This is what Shaa’ir + Func were meant to do.
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