Gobi's Valley (Banjo-Kazooie) || GameRaga

Launching GameRaga, a platform for Indian-fusion and folk metal covers of your favorite game music!

While I plan to do very little music videos for this project, I wanted to finally create an individual artist and platform to release my works involving sitar, tabla, Bollywood influence, and otherwise Indian instrumentations! This way I can better explore progressive metal works as myself and not force any typecasting or expectations!

This track was one of the first times in my life I could extremely loosely connect Indian music to video games! While the game itself is a visual tribute to Egypt and the desert, the song itself seems to broadly feature music styles of Spain and otherwise not quite in the vein of Indian music. While I worked on different "scales", or Raags with Sitar, I found ways to make that famous opening section conventional featuring more meend (bending) and of course a bit of percussion to like tabla and similar.

I hope to make this a fun side project with guests now and then, but best of all I'll be working on releasing the tracks on Spotify! You can find them under GAMERAGA or RO PANUGANTI as well, so your support there makes a big difference! Hopefully we can bring some GameRaga songs to the live stage too!

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I'm Ro P. and I make progressive-rock music, covers, and more! If you like crazy riffs, diverse rockin' tunes, or video games you should check out my channel!

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[RoPanuganti]

What songs should I cover NEXT for GameRaga?? Remember most of these tracks will drop on Twitter/IG and Streaming ONLY so be sure to follow me there!

[HighZ]

Anyone else getting Hades vibes at some points? Sick, man

[decembers]

This cover is so sick! If you wanted to do another song from this era, I bet you could make a sitar work splendidly in the Angry Aztec theme from DK64. It would also be super neat to see how the sitar sounds in other music from desert themes in games. The obvious one is any music connected to the Gerudo, but also Temple of Drifting Sands from Nier. Or you can see how more mellow music sounds with the sitar, like the underwater music from Mario games. Regardless, I'm stoked to see what you play next. 😀

[Duhemsounds]

One of my favorites from Banjo Kazooie, I love how you've put in the front line the beauty of the indian style of that track

[AlinaAniretake]

Gosh, how I missed Sitars on your channel))

[gabocarina]

New favorite for me! I absolutely love what you did with this one and the Grunty's Lair reference! That was so good dude!!!

[NicoMendozaMusic]

Yooo more Banjo Kazooie covers in 2022! Really dug the sitar and electric interplay. Solos were also tasteful, amazing work Ro!

[Sean]

Really kicking off this project with a bang, huh - amazing job!

[LaceyJohnsonMusic]

Literally as fantastic as I could have ever hoped for! Very excited for this project RO!

[Gunderslam]

This is the Indian-Metal cover we all needed! Can't wait to hear what you've got cooking next!

[TylerRJenkinsMusic]

Love the inclusion of the sitar and tablas! Killin it Ro.

[JonasBombeke]

Absolutely amazing work man, I really adore this! Those solos are freaking 🔥🔥!!

[TheCreepypro]

this is so cool I can't get over you playing the sitar and how cool it sounds I hope you do more with it in the future

[SPFAN]

this is so good. that part at 1:47 is fantastic.

[federicosofioavogadro]

Hey! Nice way of mixing different styles! I love it! Well done!!😁

[BlueCrimson]

It'll probably be pretty tough, but Scuttle Town Theme from Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

[NivanSharma]

god this was so sick! love the indian folk vibes in this song. It works so well for the type of track this is. Nice job man!

[EarthKid]

This is awesome! Nice use of sitar, tablas, and acoustic guitar in the arrangement, and I really like that sitar solo. Looking forward to the next one!

[asundayraine]

this is super cool, I can’t wait to hear more from this project! 🤩 y’know what might be cool in this style, I think some of the music from the Chicory soundtrack would sound great!

[Sanjesh_P]

YES I am absolutely all for this style, excited to see where you go with it!!