It’s the last week of Pride Month, and we’ve got one more great profile for you, and this one gets a little teaser.
Ramesh Srivastava spent the 00’s enchanting audiences with the catchy indie-pop group Voxtrot, a group Ramesh started after high school and moving to Europe. He brought Voxtrot back home to Texas, making them one of Austin’s most prominent bands of the 2000’s.
Part of what prompted Ramesh’s move to Glasgow was the need to seek community compared to the loneliness of being a queer half-Indian boy in Texas. After Voxtrot announced an indefinite hiatus in 2010, some of those same demons came full circle, creating an identity crisis surrounding his queerness, religion, and culture. His innerwork through that process is encased in his upcoming solo album Search for Freedom & God, a work dealing with everything from existentialism, spirituality, love and heartbreak, and the pursuit of purpose.
Ramesh recently teamed up with award-winning Austin string quartet Invoke for their “Under The Hood” monthly concert series at Batch Austin. KUTX captured this collaboration in Studio 1A that featured both new Voxtrot and solo Ramesh songs. “Broadway” is a yet to be released song written for his upcoming solo album. You can see the full Studio 1A at KUTX.org.
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