Frizzell D’Souza to conclude India tour in Bengaluru this weekend

In a time and clip erstwhile reels are child’s play and euphony is tech driven, it is refreshing to spot a honest-to-goodness opus play retired wherever the lyrics and visuals are successful sync. Frizzell D’Souza has done conscionable that with her newest azygous ‘My Last Cigarette’ which released successful August this year.

“I person been performing this opus unrecorded for astir 2 and a fractional years now. I wrote it successful November 2022, erstwhile I was going done thing similar; it is astir dealing with reddish flags and a toxic situation. The opus is rather relatable and has been doing good astatine my unrecorded shows,” says Frizzell.

The Bengaluru-based instrumentalist adds, “The opus grew implicit the past 2 years and is going to beryllium a portion of my upcoming medium which is thing I americium moving connected with my band.”

She continues, “In the past, erstwhile bands would tour, they would play their songs and going by assemblage absorption would tweak them. The songs which got the champion effect would marque it to the medium arsenic it is rather costly to grounds a unrecorded band.”

Frizzell and her set did thing akin with ‘My Last Cigarette’. “This was a caller attack for me, and it has been large to trial caller euphony connected the road. You get to spot people’s absorption successful existent clip and enactment connected what needs to improve.”

“I saw the effect to ‘My Last Cigarette’ and decided to spell each out. We recorded with the afloat unrecorded band, got horns and trumpets, and produced a video with an histrion and a dancer, which was thing antithetic for me.”

The result, a charming video, speaks for itself arsenic good arsenic the connection it conveys. While the opus has been produced by Aadarsh Subramaniam, the euphony video was directed by Anurag Baruah and changeable by Aman Choudhury.

Frizzell and the set toured Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, and Singapore, the second arsenic portion of a showcase at Music Matters, wherever she represented Indian autarkic euphony connected an planetary signifier for the archetypal clip successful her philharmonic career. Now, the last limb of her circuit unfolds successful Bengaluru this weekend. 

On the satellite stage

Talking astir her acquisition successful Singapore wherever she had 3 shows, the artiste says, ”It was absorbing to play my euphony implicit determination due to the fact that batch of the euphony successful South Asia is inspired by K-pop. It was a situation to beryllium thrown successful the heavy extremity wherever virtually cipher knew maine oregon my music, and I knew each absorption would beryllium authentic.”

With 3 alternatively divers venues — a euphony store, a pub and the main festival signifier — Frizzell says she and her set learnt to change their sets connected the spot to cater to the abstraction and crowd. “All the different acts determination were fantastic and rather antithetic from the indie euphony manufacture here. Watching them made maine recognize however overmuch I needed to larn and turn arsenic an artiste; determination was truthful overmuch to instrumentality away. It was a large experience,” she says. The showcase successful Singapore had implicit 40 musicians from astir 20 countries, arsenic good arsenic delegates from planetary euphony companies.

“The Last Cigarette Tour is coming to an end, but determination inactive is euphony successful the making,” says Frizzell, adding that determination are going to collaborations “with different breathtaking artistes soon”.

Frizzell D’Souza volition contiguous The Last Cigarette Tour astatine the Bengaluru International Centre connected October 25. Tickets starting from ₹499 disposable connected Skillbox and Bandsintown