Think of a bunch of chili peppers boiling in a cauldron of grease, garnished with psychobabbling oddities and stirred by a brigade of bullfrogs. Now throw some depleted uranium into the mix. That's Old Jungle Saying for you!
The
Band is a bunch of experimental, wise, improbably funky, groovy love kamikazes.
Old Jungle Saying is based in one of the lazy layouts of the southern city of
Bangalore, India. Influenced by the likes of Primus, The Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Faith No More, Infectious Grooves and a whole lot of other bands whose genealogy
is hard to trace, Old Jungle Saying serves up sumptuous slabs of psychedelic
funk, held in place by the riotous rhythm section of Sandeep Madhavan (bass)
and Greg Hamra (drums). As they steer the mothership through the groovy guitars
of Hemanth, the charismatic gurgling of Aditya Menon can be heard calling the
faithful from above the rarified groove.
Roots:
Old Jungle Saying was born the bastard child of Sandeep Madhavan and Melroy
D’Mello, who after finding a drummer to indulge their petulance, enlisted the
services of Aditya Menon who was found serenading himself in a local pub. With
the wagon on the road, the band was ready to start work on what would eventually
turn out to be a brand of macabre funk. With lyrics inhabited by the likes of
ticked-off monkeys, generous ghosts and Faye Dunaway while still managing to
cast a jaundiced eye on the world, a rhythm section that stops, turns and whistles
on a dime, guitar licks that weave through without a scratch and vocals that
preach and prattle. // Mel returned to Mumbai and has been replaced by Hemanth,
a guitar virtuoso who adeptly provides the rock-influenced yet funky axe-work
required to tickle your funny bone while punching you in the gut.
