Nepal Music Archive: How some musicians are leading an ambitious project for their shared future

When a group of musicians and music scholars started Echoes in the Valley in 2017 , it instantly realised the need to archive the music and sounds heard during the festival. As the aim of the festival was to uncover and revive local music, the musicians soon felt they needed to start archiving or at least documenting the sounds played during the festival.

“We immediately knew we needed an archive and that’s how the idea of Nepal Music Archive began,” says Rajan Shrestha, the executive director of the archive.