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Hiya! AJANTA ARE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF A COMPETITION TO PLAY SHAMBALA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011! If you have any free time, it would be great if you could just click on the link below and press ‘VOTE AJANTA’.. The more votes we get – the closer we get to playing…so please tell all of your mates and family – Vote Ajanta! please send this email on to others and get them voting Ajanta! – exponential growth! CHEERS! AJANTA. x

Photos by Nicholas Dishington – 2011

Live Review – Fri 8th April

Having previously missed out on reviewing Ajanta I was excited to get my opportunity tonight and they did not disappoint. Powerful riffs combine with stunning melodies to create something multifaceted and intriguing as they switch easily between eastern psychedelia and chunky post-rock. The set encapsulates a lot, but it never seems overwhelmed or conflicted, and it is very apparent that they have been experimenting with sound and playing together for a long time now. Check out ‘Haunt Me’ for a perfect example of their ability to be catchy, technical and spacey all within the space of three minutes. Ajanta are a wonderfully experimental and self-assured band who never fail to impress in live setting. - Rebecca Atkinson

live review – leedsmusicscene.net

Over to Ajanta for something baffling. A delicious blend of European folk, stomping blues and irresistible groove, the four piece plough through with some sugar sweet riffs and Mars Volta chunkiness. Some tricky musicianship too in the form of awkward time signatures (the strangely infectious Carry Him Down begins in with a section in a thoroughly wanky 19/8) and playful feel shifts varying in subtlety. The whole set is drenched in world influences too – polka rhythms, Spanish guitar and smatterings of blues – but it never feels too alien when mixed with segments that sound like they might have been ripped from the more spacey end of The Stone Roses back catalogue. Vocally though, the melodies sometimes felt a bit weak for the style but that could be easily forgiven with the witty Spanish guitar solos and the overall rhythmic tour-de-force. Exciting stuff from a band to watch out for. (TH)

a pic from York

Ajanta’s LIVE apperience on BBC introducing West Yorkshire.

Hi there..

Click on the following link to listen back to the “BBC introducing West Yorkshire.” show. Ajanta played 3 live songs, along with an interview – Thanks to all that listened.

CLICK ON THE iPLAYER TO LISTEN. (Ajanta start at about 2hours 24mins)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also down forget to download the new single – HAUNT ME - For Free!

Ajanta’s first gig of 2011 – please come down – 11th FEB @ The Library in LEEDS.