People nourish their views with quotes from people ? Amit Chaudhuri grabbed Marcel Duchamp?s, who averred that all compositions, for want of etimology, can be termed as ?found objects?. Thus, ?structural similarities?, at once profound, were put at bay by two things: earnestness of purpose, and orchestrative finesse... and an underlying hope that it will work.

It did ? at the Gyan Manch, on January 15, courtesy the British Council, Spandan, RPG and Ambuja Cement. It was a congenial union of the devotional and the improvisational. Chaudhuri played ? his keenness battling with his amateurish skills ? a facilitator to the hilt, and happily in an effort to contest the deft minimalism of Debabrata Mitra (keyboards) and the thumping support of Mainak Bhaumik (percussion).

Langour and ornamentalism featured during a ditty (Malkauns in Summertime) which found similarity between a Gershwin product and a from-home ecclesiastical tune ? eliciting kudos ? when the gifted Amyt Datta (in picture) earned his fee/creative gratification through his introspective chords, which greatly enriched Spanish Bhairav, an apt canvas for his known flair for the trilly and the tense, complemented by Mitra?s rhythmic con brio.