Rahul Vanamali

@rahulvanamali.com

📍Chennai, India Percussionist, performer, educator, session musician. Video game music arranger, Pokémon geek. He/him. Available for remote recording!

Been working on more intentional, offline living lately, but some updates - Sold out(!) solo show in Chennai last month, first of its kind in India - Introducing marimba/vibes to new audiences & genres of Indian music with different bands/ensembles Grateful for the opportunities

A picture of me playing my marimba with the vibraphone on stage in the background

I've been gigging a lot with my vibraphone lately and a few weeks ago, something in the pickup system broke, leaving me with two buzzing keys and a non-functional volume knob until I can get replacement parts from the US 😭

I plugged my vibraphone into a guitar amp for the first time in a rehearsal today, and having previously used it almost exclusively with amp sims on my laptop…wow. Someone tell me not to start looking at amps and physical pedals 🫠

BLUEY!!! I made a big old trombone collab to spread positivity and desire to help those around us 💙 For me, it's for Faye, who is a young Bluey fan battling leukemia. I wanted to do something to help! Now, more than ever--we need to help each other. I hope this video inspires us all to do that!

I recently found this folder containing all the music my dad downloaded for me to listen to on my first iPod ages ago 😶‍🌫️ The lack of DS games is a bit misleading timeline-wise lol but this was probably around 2009-2010. I spent sooo many hours listening to these soundtracks

A OneDrive folder containing the soundtracks to most of the Pokémon games from generations I to IV

I played for a singer-songwriter friend tonight at a venue that couldn’t accommodate a bass drum, so I ended up having a really interesting and inspiring time with this minimal setup of snare, floor tom (pseudo-kick) and ride cymbal

A picture of my snare drum, floor Tom, and ride cymbal

The Daylight Savings change is messing with me despite living in a country that doesn’t observe it because I have to mentally replan any calls or scheduled events with anyone in NA haha