Formed in late 2007 in Bangalore, Sridhar/Thayil is a lyrical pop duo from Bombay-NY-NJ-Hong Kong. Their brand of "urban grime" concocts sweet jazz vocals with mean gravelly talk over wailing blues guitar and electronic back beats.

S/T has been known to combine scratchy beats with pop melodies and Indian inflections with classical instrumentation; and they play a range of characters as part of their live act: a demented preacher, a three year old, a drowning man...

Their first gig was at the Galle Festival, Sri Lanka, Jan 2008. Since then S/T has played at venues such as Prithvi Festival (Mumbai), Sula Festival (Nasik), and the upcoming South Bank Festival (London).

WHAT OTHERS SAY:

"Sridhar/Thayil are redefining indie music in India."-Rolling Stone, July 2009.

"music and performing art meet whimsy..."-Rolling Stone, July 2009.

"bare-foot, lo-fi rhythmic magic" -Times of India

"The project of the uber-talented Suman Sridhar and Jeet Thayil, Sridhar/Thayil gave us reason to believe that creativity and substance could work together in only the dirtiest of ways. If ‘cutting edge’ was ever a term used to define music, this would be it. Their brand of urban grime...is refreshing and totally unique to an Indian scene that needs people to speak up about art and feelings. And stuff." -Indiecision.com, May 2008.

"Suman Sridhar and Jeet Thayil combine their unmistakable talents of word-smithing, song writing and all-round performing to cook up a jazz-toned, grass-root feel stew pot of sexy groove music." -Times of India, May 2008.

"An unabashedly intriguing act", "refreshingly engrossing and honest."-The Asian Age, September 2008.

"The project of theatre actor and singer Suman Sridhar and poet Jeet Thayil, Sridhar/Thayil’s lyrical pop takes thematic Indian music sensibilities and combines them with an urban swagger in the vein of early Björk and, occasionally, Tom Waits. Bring Me Rain is a perfect example of their dirty-sexy feel, taking traditional Indian sounds and cooking up something that could work equally well at a nu-jazz club or a grimy bar." -Music Alliance Pact, August 2009

"'This Be the Beat’ is what makes performance word art the adrenalin-pumping, head nodding, table thumping voodoo it is, when its done good." -Times of India

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