‘Choro Kupi’-Tribute to Silas Kikon by Alobo Naga

Alobo Naga is back with second tribute cover of the well-known Lotha classic song “Choro Kupi” (Under the moon) by legendary singer Silas Kikon after the tribute to Sumi legendary singer Rocky.

According to Alobo, the whole idea of this tribute series was to popularise Naga dialect based songs and introduce the forgotten legends and their songs to the younger generations and the world.

Alobo mentioned in his social media, that it took him ‘three months to learn the song, the dialect and arrange the song’. He also did a research on the legendary singer, his music and took permission from the family before starting the project.

Interestingly he worked with mostly Lotha musicians for this project. Piano was played by Zubeni Kikon, Cello by Mhorhomo Yanthan and violin by Yanzo Kikon. Voice and piano were recorded by Soyuchen (Infinity records Kohima) and cello, violin was recorded at New life studio, mixing and mastering by Jackto Wotsa.

The music video was shot by Toshi Longchar. Like the previous music video of Rocky where the team experimented One Take video, this time they experimented with vertical music video, first of its kind among the Nagaland.  The video has an English subtitle for non Lotha’s.

EMN