EXPLORING MUSIC AND SOUND · BY PAPER_HAZE
Sarangi to Synth: Inside Nepal's Folk-to-Fusion Music Revival
A four-string fiddle carried by wandering Gaine musicians for centuries is turning up on studio tracks next to synthesizers and 808s. How Nepal’s folk instruments found a second life.
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29 AUGUST 2026
The Article
Walk through Thamel on a quiet evening and you'll still hear it: a thin, reedy, slightly nasal wail coming from a four-string instrument played with a bow, carried by a musician who's probably descended from generations of Gaine — the traditional caste of itinerant folk…