Pranav Birje | The News Bulletins
Vikram Bam’s latest release, Nayi Tabeer, from his EP ‘Poetry, Apparently…’ is coming to melt your heart this Valentines Day
Vikram Bam is a Singer/Songwriter and Producer based out of Mumbai. A musician from the age of 8, he started with classical piano, Indian classical vocals and taught himself the guitar, which he then used to audition for and attend Berklee College of music, focusing on Songwriting and Production.
He grew up in a musical environment as the third in a 3 generation music company started by his grandfather in 1986 and then taken on by his mother.
His latest project is his EP called ‘Poetry, Apparently…’ where he is trying to bring the focus back to the lyrics of songs in an age when people seem to focus on them lesser by the day.
Nayi Tadbeer is the second song from the EP which combines his writing, voice and guitar playing to give all the romantic souls in the world something to hum and sing along to this valentine’s month.
This song combines all of Vikram’s skills as a producer, vocalist, guitarist and lyricist. There is a focus on using the guitar in equal weightage as the voice in the song and in Vikram’s words, ‘allowing the strings to say things that the voice cannot express’. The melody and composition are reminiscent of something you’d hear in 60s Bollywood and the musical arrangement follows a more soft rock approach, reminiscent of artists like John Mayer and Norah Jones.
Vikram is a multi instrumentalist although he primarily focuses on vocals and guitar. He produces his own music with a blend of all the styles and genres he grew up on. Having grown up around some fantastic musicians and producers, Vikram’s style is influenced by the artists who he was surrounded by and uses his Bollywood and Indian classical influences and merges them with his more western classical and rock influences to hopefully create something that people haven’t considered yet. He also scored the documentary series ‘Kashmir Unreported’ and arranged songs for Bollywood movies called ‘The Kashmir Files’ and ‘The Vaccine War’.