The Conversation I

Lovely to speak with Nayan Bhula of The NRI’s on his interview series, “Both Sides Now”. The whole point of releasing music this year has been to have more conversations with people about music and art and making and living, and so getting a chance to speak with Nayan about our projects and our lives and how we both came to be releasing music each month this year is exactly the point.

I first met Nayan back in Washington, DC in the early 2000’s. He owned Revolution Records, a great record store up a flight of stairs off of Connecticut Ave. Nayan used to host in-store concerts on the weekends and I was fortunate enough to play a few of those heady gigs.

Always good to reconnect with old musical friends to see where life has lead you and how the living seeps into your voice and the music you make now. We discussed the minor triumphs and tragedies and the process by which we’ve refined our craft, and we both get into the background of how we wrote the songs we’re releasing this month. For my part, I describe walking into the Russian church and hearing the melody that would become “Something Living In The Green”. Nayan talks about having the rug pulled out from under him and getting fired from a decade long job and having to find new employment after 40. We discuss how he processed that experience and wrote it all out in his song, “Moving On”.

It was a great conversation and that’s the whole point.