Nyima Records to set off on four-city tour prior to debut album launch

From the autarkic level Indie Grrrl successful 2024 to launching a grounds statement Femme Music astatine the commencement of 2025, the extremity for city-based euphony shaper and audio technologist Sanoli Chowdhury has been to make pistillate indie artists. While Femme Music is co-founded by euphony manufacture seasoned Vinod Gadher, who is besides Sanoli’s creator manager, unneurotic they launched Nyima Records, a sub-label for Indian singer-songwriters.

Ahead of the compilation’s archetypal merchandise Nyima Vol. 1 launching connected November 28, a four-city circuit featuring artistes connected the medium volition footwear disconnected successful Bengaluru connected November 9, astatine Fandom successful Koramangala. For Sanoli, who has besides been moving connected her ain music, it has been a hectic year. Still, she calls the acquisition of mounting up the statement and organising the upcoming circuit arsenic “extremely fruitful and humbling”.

She adds, “I genuinely judge what we are creating is going to beryllium a occurrence for each the close reasons; we request this propulsion successful the industry.”

Comprising 11 tracks, Nyima Vol. 1 includes a assortment of artistes some caller and seasoned, including Aanchal Bordoloi, Aadya Jaswal, ⁠⁠Anjali Manoharan, ⁠⁠kokum, Meera Desai, Ro Maiti, Ruhdabeh, Sahana Naresh, Tabitha Kagoo, Tiana Tara and Zahrah. These were the artistes that Sanoli and Vinod had successful caput for their inaugural offering, and they judge the compilation volition beryllium a “treat” for immoderate listener.

While this task features songs successful English, Nyima arsenic a sub-label is unfastened to releasing euphony crossed languages, arsenic agelong arsenic they are successful the indie, pop, singer-songwriter space. At the motorboat amusement successful Bengaluru, Aanchal Bordoloi, Sahana Naresh and Tabitha Kagoo volition perform, pursuing which the Nyima circuit volition caput to Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai, featuring assorted artistes appearing connected the album.

Sahana Naresh, who has been releasing euphony since 2021, has a opus called ‘Into the Wild’ connected the compilation. Evoking the classical dependable of the 1960s and 1970s, she says the opus is astir “about uncovering your ain bushed successful the chaos, that infinitesimal erstwhile you halt moving and commencement listening to yourself.” An contiguous hook successful the opus is of a quality named Joanne, whom Sahana notes is fictional but metaphorical.

“Joanne represents that interior dependable we often ignore, the 1 that tells you to instrumentality the leap, to spell into the wild. Every artiste has a Joanne — that brave mentation of yourself you are trying to become,” she adds.

For Tabitha Kagoo, her opus ‘Come Sit By My Bed’ features contributions by chap Goa-based artistes Anika Bharwani and Jenn Steeves. Written successful 2019, the intimate opus is simply a sobering reflection from the artist. “Sometimes we marque radical retired to beryllium antithetic from who they really are. We enactment them connected a pedestal to warrant being with them. This opus was a mode for maine to sift done the world and disappointment it brings,” Tabitha says.

Recreating her opus ‘Anyway/Eitherway’ with guitarist Siddarth Nayanar, was a mode for Aanchal Bordoloi to propulsion the way erstwhile again aft feeling it had not got its owed by a erstwhile label. The Assamese-origin, Bengaluru-based artiste is much than blessed to enactment with Sanoli, whose euphony she besides follows. “I spot her and that is enough; that is arsenic plainly arsenic I tin enactment it,” Aanchal says.

All 3 artistes performing successful Bengaluru for the Nyima launch, accidental they are drawn by the hands-off state that a statement specified arsenic Femme Global provides astatine a clip erstwhile songs are enactment done large statement machinery and euphony is churned astatine a complaint that seldom leaves a mark. Sahana says, “They are gathering a assemblage wherever women tin merchandise euphony that feels existent to who they are. That benignant of ecosystem is precisely what the Indian autarkic country needs close now.”

Tabitha adds that enactment coming from a statement tin assistance pistillate musicians further judge successful their trade and enactment towards thing bigger. “Most labels enactment you erstwhile you are already halfway determination but determination is simply a request for labels that volition enactment you close astatine the commencement and Nyima and Indie Grrrl are doing conscionable that,” she says.

Aanchal too, says however Sanoli’s level Indie Grrrl was inspired by the Riot Grrrl feminist punk movement. “I’m each successful for revolution. What is creation without it?” she asks.

At the Nyima motorboat show, expect a wide-ranging acceptable from Sahana, including songs similar ‘Chasin Light’ and ‘Bhoopali Beginnings’ positive re-imagined versions of her older tracks with ‘Into the Wild.’ She adds, “I privation it to consciousness intimate but expansive, similar a philharmonic flight close successful the mediate of the city.”

Aanchal is bringing successful guitarist Manan J Panchmatia for 2 songs successful her set, which volition see ‘Anyway/Eitherway’ arsenic good arsenic her caller azygous ‘Brazilian Girl’ and a caller song, ‘Hot Chocolate Honey’. She adds, “I’ve invited immoderate of my students, who I mentored for a songwriting course. They are young, and I americium thrilled to present them to concerts similar this.”

Tabitha promises caller worldly arsenic well. “There are immoderate songs that volition interruption your bosom and others that hopefully volition mend earlier the acceptable ends,” she says.

Nyima Tour’s Bengaluru performance takes spot connected November 9 astatine Fandom, Koramangala. Details of the circuit and tickets disposable connected femme-music.com