Sound Choice

Influenced by Japanese culture and ’80s video games, musician Tarana Marwah’s debut album packs Indian indie’s freshest sound.

- Neville Bhandara

The vocals on ‘Little ones’, the first track on Tarana Marwah aka Komorebi’s debut album, Soliloquy, has a lilt reminiscent of trip-hop visionary Imogen Heap’s. And so far, critics and listeners have been eating it up. “I’m not sure what I did right, but people are able to understand what I’m trying to say,” says the 23-year-old New Delhi-based musician. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Marwah had an early tryst with music—she studied western classical piano at Tom Lee Academy of Music when she was only seven, before moving to India and joining Delhi University, while also doing a two-year course in jazz impro