Guitarist Mario Camarena Of Californian Rock Band ‘Chon’ Opens Up On Their Magical Musical Experience In India

Be it the “crazy musical rhythm” of taxis in India or the little sounds of Indian culture, Californian rock band Chon feel everything is a little more progressive in India musically.

The band performed in India for the first time at Vh1 Supersonic music festival. The festival was held at Mahalaxmi Lawns, Pune from February 7 to 9.

Chon comprises guitarist Mario Camarena, bassist Esiah Camarena, drummer Nathan Camarena and guitarist Erick Hansel.

Talking about their stay in India, Mario said: “When we landed here in Pune, we heard a taxi backing up and the sound of the taxi backing up was like a crazy rhythmic pattern. We’re like yo! That’s actually like crazy musical rhythm. Like you don’t hear stuff like that where we’re from. When we take taxis, the music we hear is such cool rhythms. You don’t hear such stuff in the states. From the tiny bit of exposure, we’ve taken so much already. I have some friends who are from India, one of them he plays guitar and he plays crazy progressive guitar. Everything is a little more progressive in India musically.”

On the performance, he said: “We played a lot of music from our newest album and it was cool, I saw a bunch of people that we could tell were our fans and then I see a bunch of people that I can tell maybe hadn’t heard of us before but they’re like vibing out which is cool. That’s exactly what we want in a festival. Like we loved to see people who know our music and we love to see people who don’t know our music at all.”