Bibek Lama (Blone)

In 2020 during lockdown, he got selected in the second edition of Confluence. There, he got an opportunity to work with Rochak Dahal and Subash Poudel and was introduced to many other versatile artists such as Suman Gautam, Aadesh Poudel and Darshika Regmi.

Bibek Lama

Bibek Lama Blone is a Tungna player based in Kathmandu with a running Masters degree in Rural Development. He has been playing Tungna (Traditional Nepali lute) for half a decade. Besides this, he owns his youtube channel for more than 5 years where he frequently posts his covers and Tungna related videos. Bibek has been diving into Nepali folk music and has an aim on preserving and taking our age old music towards a new audience. Throughout his college years he worked as a volunteer in Shiksha Nepal with an aim to distribute Story books to children of remote areas of Nepal. Bibek believes these years as his shaping years where he got to meet an abundant number of young people and know about their thoughts. Which shifted his perception of life, society and culture.

He first performed at Jamarko Jatra 2019 at Patan from Project Tungna which helped him to experience the joy of folk music. After that he Performed as background musician at Appearance of light 2019 with Sundar Lama, Sagun Tamang which led him into the world of performance art which he was unknown at that time. This led him to the profound impact of other mediums of art.

He recalls this artform( performance art) changed his view towards art. After that, he performed at Utapala cafe for Muddy hands 2019 which led him to meet up with members of "baaja" musical group which further helped him to get into music. In 2020 during lockdown, he got selected in the second edition of Confluence. There, he got an opportunity to work with Rochak Dahal and Subash Poudel and was introduced to many other versatile artists such as Suman Gautam, Aadesh Poudel and Darshika Regmi. This co- learning and exchanging helped him to accept all genres of music and which supported him to develop incorporative habit of comradice. In 2022, he collaborated with Fret (a trio folk musical group from Bhaktapur) to perform his original " Bhumari" at Filhaal seto naadh organised by Project Naadhe. His song Bhumari illustrates his experience of gravitating compulsive cycle or patterns in life of which he doesn't seem happy. Deeply invoked with dark melody and hymns.

Similarly, he worked as a background musician for Sundar Lama's performance art "Dancing grief". Besides this, Bibek has been active as a session musician and has worked with various musicians including Darwin Lungeli, Rohit Shakya and many more. Bibek wishes to revoke the love of folk music and instruments in youths and also plans on releasing his music soon in the near future.

Project Sarangi

Performance art Appearance of light 2019