SELECTED CARNATIC WORKS 19-56
SELECTED TRACKS (2024-2026)
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January 17, 2025
Named for a slogan beloved of Indian freedom fighter B.R Ambedkar.
CREDITS
Kapil Seshasayee: Guitars / Synths
Diljeet Kaur Bhachu: Flute
Edwin Stewart McLachlan: Drums -
September 19, 2025
Influenced by J-Rock bands like Zutomayo and The Pillows.
CREDITS
Kapil Seshasayee: Guitar / Percussion / Keys
Diljeet Kaur Bhachu: Flute -
April 17, 2026
A fan asked me for a song that might fit in their favourite anime Dandadan. I answered with Carnatic guitar, UK Garage and a distorted synth that owes a lot to KPop.
CREDITS
Kapil Seshasayee: Guitars / Synths / Bass / Drums
Diljeet Kaur Bhachu: Flute -
January 16, 2026
Explores the connections between Japanese folk and Carnatic Indian classical music, influenced as much by the fretless mandolin work of U.Srinivas as by the catchy J-Rock of bands like Zutomayo.
CREDITS
Guitars / Keys: Kapil Seshasayee
Flute: Kapil Seshasayee -
February 27, 2026
Indian classical guitar shaped by repetition, restraint, and tension.
Carnatic gamakas are set against a sparse drone and subtle percussive detail, drawing on the feeling of slow-burn movement rather than traditional song structure.
Written to be played live — on stage or on stream.CREDITS
Kapil Seshasayee: guitars -
November 21, 2025
Named for a Japanese fishing boat which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954 - "Lucky Dragon No.5" combines distinctive Carnatic Indian Classical guitar contrasted with Japanese folk influences.
CREDITS
Guitar: Kapil Seshasayee -
July 18, 2025
Komorebi" (木漏れ日) is a Japanese word that describes the sunlight that filters and shines through the leaves of trees.
I thought this would be the perfect title for a song combining the Indian Classical music I heard growing up with sounds I heard on my honeymoon in Japan.
CREDITS
Guitar: Kapil Seshasayee
Flute Diljeet Kaur Bhachu -
March 14, 2025
My first time singing in my native Tamil on record!
My father often worries that he's disconnected me from my South Indian roots by raising me in the UK so I wrote him this song.
LYRICS
Nanga Tirumbi pui irkanum (We should have gone back)
Words that I often hear you say
You’re only young with inclination to forget
Words that I often hear you say
What if I'm closer to the the thing that you have always wanted
But you’re so quick to recommend I go and disregard it
Is it as late as you had feared, as if the guilt suffices
Maybe I’ll find it anywhere, left to my own devices
All you fear that you’ve lost
Nan maṟantuvitten (I forgot)
That one thing that you want
Nan atai punna matten (I won’t do that)
As if I’m taking after you with every step
Call this the only path and it will not exist
Spare me I understand, I get the gist
I’m often left to ask, Whose bright idea was this?CREDITS
Kapil Seshasayee: Vocals / Guitars / Synths
Diljeet Kaur Bhachu: Flute
Edwin Stewart Mclachlan: Percussion -
May 22, 2025
Do you think using AI to make art is harmless? Think again.
AI is often trained on the work of real artists without asking them. An OpenAI employee called Suchir Balaji tried to warn everyone about this but he was silenced. This song is in his memory. His message will not be lost.LYRICS
We all know who did it
Uṉṉālē (by you)
As if I’d admit it
Paravāyillai (it doesn’t matter)
Fail to understand these things like we do
Save it for somebody that believes you
I’ll let you know when I’m ready
He didn’t leave a letter
Atu eṅkē (where is it?)
10 centimeters
Cantēkam (doubt)CREDITS
Kapil Seshasayee: Vocals / Guitars / Synths / Bass
Diljeet Kaur Bhachu: Flute
Edwin Stewart Mclachlan: Drums & Mixing
LISTEN
Educate, Agitate, Organise
Where is your sword?
BUY DIGITAL
Komorebi
Daredevil Cartwheel
Scimitar
Whose bright idea was this?
Acro-Silky
Lucky Dragon No.5
I’ll Let You Know When I Am Ready