Fusion

Samraat Club, Panaji is organizing 'Taal Sangam' on International Women's Day. The event showcases 'Recharge' band led by India’s greatest lady percussionist, Anuradha Pal who mixes up Indian Tabla beats with Latin, African and other global musical instruments. Along with eight other musicians, she will be creating the most popular genres of music: fusion!

‘Fusion Music’ is a standard term usually used for combination of various genres of music. It has become a passion and life's work for many musicians. They find it artistically stimulating to create music by integrating ideas of more than one tradition. It brings together diverse styles and creates a ‘Sangam‘ (confluence) that is fresh and interesting for the listener.

The coming together of diverse parts into a new whole is a process that requires an open mind ready to experiment with possibilities. Like in music, in life too we need to be better at reinventing our performance by adopting the choice of fusion with competencies of others. Fusion is that level of team working where the combination is greater than the sum of its parts...

So often, so many of us are unable to fuse our individual competence with that of others. While personal proficiency has to be nurtured and developed, it is our ability to combine in fusion that will liberate us from living in a comfort zone. However it is pertinent to note that to create the apt fusion, we must have an open mind and a willingness to celebrate diversity.

We must open our mind to combined action

Let’s BE BETTER at creating the right fusion!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

Goa, India.