Concert Review: Red Baraat Are A Living Festival At BRIC HOUSE
Some reviews are hardest because they are simple. Fun is fun. No afterthought! No explanation! It is just something you give into. When Red Baraat played Bric House, they brought the fun. They are band that has toured the world and captured success by just being a batch of crazy, vibrant guys who knows how to make an instrument bleed, cry, think, and laugh music as if it were a human being.
There are certain people who play their instruments for what they are: inanimate objects. And then there are those like Red Baraat who play their instruments as if a trombone had feelings, a guitar went through mood-swings, and drums only make noise because they are exercising their body. That sounds like a crazy idea but that is the kind of idea that makes Red Baraat one of the best genre-bending/ Bhangra bands you can see. Red Baraat’s music is timeless because their energy jumps, leaps, and does an overall triathlon on the stage of BRIC House. Sitting in a “bleacher-like” formatted venues, you felt like you were scaling towards Red Baraat looking down on them like you were in the coolest opera house, which makes the maestros Sonny Singh and Sunny Jain.
Red Baraat is known as a party band which means that Singh and Jain are the headliners/hype-men that are the focus and force of the party. They have a “ying-yang” quality of the two-types of “fun-persons” you meet in life. There is Jain who is the smiling, smooth guy who seems down for anything like, a sporadic dhol riff. He smiles and looks out to the crowd with an approachability that makes you wonder if he is actually one of your “family-members”, but be fair everyone in Red Baraat appears so familiar and kind, which makes you incredibly proud to see them as persons. Still, there is Singh who is the “insane-fun guy” you call when you are feeling super-down and have decided that “tonight” you are going to act like life is not a disappointment but a potential achievement. He honestly feels like someone lit a firecracker, threw it on stage, and, through the magic of music, it became a human being. I know that sounds like the plot of a future Disney film, but it seems befitting considering that Red Baraat brings out in you a child-like glee. The way they banter with each other and jump across the stage with their instruments left me in awe. I can barely jump as a human being, just carrying my weight, and yet John Altieri reached tornado levels of height with his seemingly 800-pound trombone. I felt both proud, ashamed, and like planet fitness would be seeing me very soon.
Red Baraat is like live-action festival in concert. They are so bright and alive on stage that you walk away from them feeling like you owe them. As a person, who sees many concert for a living, I cannot say I walk away from every artist feeling like I owe them for the happiness they gave me, but Red Baraat does not just give joy; they teach it. They impress you so much that you want to partake in their moment/ concert out of respect and resignation to the fact that when joy presents itself, don’t question it; just give in. As people danced in their seats and stood clapping and laughing, I was reminded that music does not always need to be reflective of society; it can be reflective of spirit by showing you you have one. For More Information On Red Baraat Click Here.
