Viveick Rajagopalan

Viveick is a musician and a composer - trained under the Carnatic tradition on the majestic percussive instruments of South India, mridangam and kanjira, Viveick uses his classical roots to compose music that moves between many Viveick has collaborated with international musicians like Richard Bona on his album Ten Shades of Blue, Chinese Man on a track called Malad in Shikantaza, SHRI (UK) , Bugge Wesseltoft, Bauchklang to name a few. Very early in his career he joined “LUCKY ALI” in his band, and even worked with him on his album SIFAR. With his albums, Dancing with Shiva and Moving Images, released as early as 2007 and 2008 respectively, he presented his unique style of blending Carnatic and modern electronic sound scapes. More recently Viveick’s Ta Dhom Project, for the first time in the history of Indian Music, brings together Carnatic Classical Rhythms, Vocal percussion and street rap in the most unique manner; this project has travelled to prestigious festivals like WOMAD (UK), SHAMBALA (UK), OSLO MELA (NORWAY) in 2019, WOMEX 2018 Edition at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Viveick’s track, India 91 in Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, the track is an off shoot of the Ta Dhom Project The iconic channel id of UTV Motion Pictures and the media giant of Kerala MATHRUBHUMI NEWS were composed and produced by him. Most recently he has also co-founded a festival that celebrates the MRIDANGAM - MridangaMela.