DESCRIPTION:
Filmed in India and Nepal.

Autorickshaw-So The Journey Goes
Music and lyrics by Suba Sankaran
released January 3, 2007

Suba Sankaran-voice, body percussion
Rich Brown-bass
Mark McLean-drums
Debashis Sinha-multikit, body percussion
Ed Hanley-tabla, body percussion
Kevin Breit-guitar
George Koller-dilruba

Video capture by Ed Hanley, December 2014-Jan 2015, on the Autorickshaw Trio tour of India and Nepal, supported by the Ontario Arts Council. Edited by Ed Hanley and Suba Sankaran. Thanks to Dylan Bell, Virgil Vihaan Sequeira, and driver Sanjay and cyclerickshaw master Debashis. Shot on location in: Kathmandu & Pokhara (Nepal), Bhopal, Delhi, Kalimpong, Candolim, Mumbai, Agonda, Bangalore, Chennai, Kharagpur (India). Filmed on foot, cyclerickshaw, canoe, boat, autorickshaw, car, bus, train, plane.

Produced by Ed Hanley & Suba Sankaran
Recorded by Jeremy Darby at Canterbury Sound, Toronto
Additional recording by Dylan Bell at FreePlay Studios
Edited by Jeremy Darby, Ed Hanley, Suba Sankaran and Dylan Bell
Mixed by Dylan Bell at FreePlay Studios
Mastered at the E-Room by Peter J. Moore

This recording was made possible through the assistance of the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts.

This track was commissioned by Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

This recording was made possible through the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.

Special thanks to the musicians and collaborators who have helped shape this music in live performance: Rich Brown, Debashis Sinha, Trichy Sankaran, John Gzowski, Kevin Breit, George Koller, Mark McLean, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, Dylan Bell, Patrick Graham, Marc Rogers and Alan Hetherington

Mark McLean plays Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals and sticks and Regal Tip brushes exclusively
Deb Sinha plays frame drums and other great Canadian made percussion by Mountain Rythym www.mountainrythym.com
Rich Brown uses Aguilar Amplification and plays Kenneth Lawrence basses.

But the album here: https://autorickshaw.bandcamp.com/track/so-the-journey-goes


Lyrics:
I’m Leaving Chennai Station, my bags are all packed,
A personal migration, get back, get back!
I’m looking at the people who stare back at me,
About to start the journey of self-discovery,

How do they see my differences with the same dress and skin?
How do they know me as a foreign alien?

Now I hear that train a-hummin’, I’ve got to move on,
I just can’t help but singing this song, it goes along, like this:

Chalanata Blues are gonna get you
if you never choose to speak your mind out loud,
Different isn’t wrong, just a new and precious song
you should sing so strong and proud,
Riding’ on the rails of life,
Railway crossing: ease and strife
Your mind’s your voice for every choice,
So the journey goes.

So the journey goes…

Embarkation is at Chennai Egmore Central Station,
Mambalam, Thambaram, Chengalpattu, Maduranthakam,
Milmaruvatur, Villupuram, Tiruchirapalli junction,
Kottayam, Thiruvalla, Chenganur, Kodumudi, Erode Junction.

The landscape’s rolling by now with a whispering wind,
Why do they rarely stop and just drink it all in?
If hearts are worn on sleeves, maybe our souls walk our paths,
And spirits start to soar only when egos are trashed.

Experience is teacher, religion and muse,
For worse or better, it is the course that I choose,
Now I’m heading for that junction, destination unknown,
This journey is a function of finding my home…