Eternal Sounds releases "Junkiri" Project featuring Nepali, English songs by Suman Thapa

KATHMANDU: Eternal Sounds released the "Junkiri" Project, a music collection of Nepali and English songs by Suman Thapa, in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

The project aims to express music through Nepali folk instruments, such as the bansuri and sarangi, blending them with western-style songwriting and composition. Various musicians have collaborated on the project to assist in the musical arrangement of the songs.

"Mero Awaaz" conveys the grief of losing a loved one, while "Valley of Sunshine" portrays a conversation with death and the feeling of being unafraid to pass on to a beautiful place.

Eternal Sounds has been established to create a lasting legacy of quality music. It has over 120,000 subscribers who enjoy music across multiple genres. At Eternal Sounds, they believe that great talent exists eternally. However, most artists today focus solely on creating music that is the flavour of the season. Eternal Sounds has focused on the creation of music that is enduring.

The Kolkata-based music company has collaborated with renowned artists such as Hariharan, Subha Mudgal, Aruna Sairam, Rashid Khan, Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Kavita Seth, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt, Pt Ronu Mazumdar, Kaushiki Chakraborty, Taufiq Qureshi, Amit Kumar, Rakesh Chaurasia, Pt S Sekhar, Kumaresh Rajagopalan, Vidushi Indrani Mukherjee, Chandrika Bhattacharya, Abhisek Mallick, Piu Mukherjee, Ashish Kulkarni, Subhadeep Chowdhury, Anjana Padmanabhan, Ananya Pal, Shovan Ganguli, Gourav Sarkar and many other emerging artists, producing numerous soulful compositions.

The company also aspires to create several international collaborations with renowned artists, contingent on their agreement, including John McLaughlin, Norah Jones, Ricky Kej, Anoushka Shankar, Greg Ellis, Steve Smith and others, potentially leading to Grammy-worthy entries from India. These projects aim to make a mark on the global music scene. The organisation is gradually reaching out to these artists to develop new projects.

Eternal Sounds is led by Utsav Parekh, a financial markets expert; Mayank Jalan, an industrialist; Gaurang Jalan, a national award-winning filmmaker; and Bickram Ghosh, a music maestro.

All four partners share a passion for music and a strong desire to see a resurgence of timeless compositions in India. Their intrinsic enthusiasm and belief in the power of music have brought them together to form this organisation.

They hope to present their audiences with music of great value in the coming years.