Manas Jha Enlists Blackstratblues, FuzzCulture and Keshav Dhar on New EP ‘Trifecta'

The three-track record also includes performances from Jai Row Kavi and Siddharth Basrur

- DAVID BRITTO

Mumbai-bred and New York City-based singer-songwriter Manas Jha began working on his third EP Trifecta in March 2020, in the throes of the pandemic. He says, “Lockdowns were taking effect. It had become clear that studios were going to be shut for the foreseeable future.” Nevertheless, the situation didn’t deter Jha, and instead, he decided to work remotely as he’d done for his 2016 debut EP The Remote Collaborations Project.

Like his first record, Jha enlists a host of household indie names on his latest EP. The singer-songwriter called upon New Delhi guitarist-producer Keshav Dhar, whom he’s been a fan of ever since he heard the musician’s rollicking track “Evolution” by his Indo-American prog-rock outfit Skyharbor in 2014. “I feel it’s that album [