Krisna’s Karma Stuns Crowd!

The Mamallapuram Dance festival was an amazing concert for Karma Bonita.  We were surrounded by beautiful Hindu dancers, Tamil Drummers, Actors….you name it!  What a privilege it was to play here.  We had been rehearsing for well over a week and the word was out that foreigners will be performing live at the festival that year.  The build up was really exciting.  We had posters made up which were plastered all over the province, we were also being publically backed by the Tamil Nadu Torist Board, who had invited us to play that year.

Now, we had a good friend staying with us from Switzerland who we called Krisna.  He could really play the Mouth Harmonica well, True Blue’s!! We had many jam sessions in our garden with him.  When he wasn’t playing….he was building a ‘Boom Shiva’ which was always religiously passed around and held up to the third eye, before choking one to death!!  Well, we kind of thought it would be cool if we could sneak him onto the stage at the end of our Gig and give him his 5 minutes of glory too!!

We know for sure that people came from all over Tamil Nadu to see the westerners play ‘Live’ at the festival.  What they didn’t know was that we had a surprise waiting for them……just to make sure they didn’t forget us…his name was Krisna and he was armed with a ‘Mouth Organ’.

Check out the faces of the stage hands…….they had NEVER heard anything like it before, they were actually scared of this man with this thing in his mouth, blasting out this alien sound through the distorted speakers.  Will Alleyne and Jascha, the Tabla player, can also be seen trying to hide thier faces in embarrasment in front of the thousands of stunned onlookers, who were not quite sure if this was music or a sign from God!

Hilarious!

Kevin