Marians one of the innovative bands in the country is to revolutionize the musical industry with their latest discovery, unplugged musical experience to the tunes and renditions of legendary musician Victor Ratnayake.
‘Classic Night’, the first ever musical combination of oriental music expert Visharadha Victor Ratnayake with ‘Marians’, popular musical band with a western touch will come together to play and sing in ‘unplugged’ style at 7 pm on May 23 at Indoor Stadium of Maris Stella College, Negombo. The show will also be enchanted with songs of another great musician late Mervyn Perera whose songs are to be sung by his son Amal Perera.
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| Victor Ratnayake |
The show will be a landmark in the music history as many of Victor’s tunes most of which were played with Thabla, flute, serpina and violin with slow oriental styles will be played with box guitars, tambourine, acoustic drums and keyboards.
“We would be guided by the experience and expertise of Victor Ratnayake who himself is a musical legend of this country,” said Marians leader, Nalin Perera excited with the novel experience.
“It will be a great honour for us to play to the voice of this veteran master musician and are very glad that he has accepted our musical style,” Nalin added.
“In other words this will be a juncture where we are going to learn from a veteran musician how to entertain the music lovers calmly and with relaxation. To get closer to our audience we must feel their pulse and this show will be a fine example of that,” Nalin said.
“In a country where noise is mistaken as music the example set by musicians like Victor Ratnayake is great. And we are glad to work with him,” Marians leader said.
Started few years ago, Marians had reached the hype of fame with their unplugged style. Having played their own songs, those of Clarence Wijewardena and Milton Mallawarachchi to the audience in unplugged style, music lovers both here and abroad had accepted them wholeheartedly in full capacity.
“We want to do more shows with other musicians like T. M. Jayaratne, Keerthi Pasqual and even singers Nanda Malani and Pandith W. D. Amaradewa. We want to learn from them how to touch the heart of our audience musically and make our journey making music more meaningful to them,” Nalin said.
Speaking on the novel experience veteran musician Victor Ratnayake said “This is a positive sign that the younger generation has realized what music is really. Today most of our youngsters have forgotten and are unaware of the soothing effect of music. Under the caption of ‘Tharunya’ they want to enjoy music not to feel in their hearts but by their bodies,”.
“Our culture and heartbeat are central on the inner peace we have learnt from Buddhism. This is even in our music and we must be aware of it”.
“I am glad this musical band has realized the value of music and it’s enchanting and calming effect and is trying to create a new way,” he said. “My joining them is a sign of encouragement to make success of their endeavour,”. |
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