'Shape of You' gets a Carnatic music cover from group at MIT

And it's beautiful.
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Sohini Mitter
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'Shape of You' gets a Carnatic music cover from group at MIT
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We're not done with the Shape of You covers. Yet.

The Ed Sheeran song that has charmed audiences world over and spurred a series of covers has now got a Carnatic music treatment from a group at MIT.

And it's beautiful.

The video posted on the Facebook page of Indian Raga (a music education startup founded at MIT) has been viewed over a million times already.

Shot in the backdrop of a sun-bathed New York City, the music is almost entirely digitally produced, but somehow manages to retain its earthiness with the Carnatic notes.

Just hear it.

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Sohini Mitter

India staff at Mashable. Formerly with Forbes India magazine and The Financial Express newspaper.


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