Bonny Abraham Ensemble’s Garden of Dreams imagines a world healed by music
What does it take to bring a broken world back to life? A revolution? A reckoning? A return to something forgotten?
In Bonny Abraham Ensemble's new music video ‘Garden of Dreams’, out now on the Kappa Originals YouTube channel, we stumble upon a softer, more sentient idea for the restoration of a fractured world. One where healing begins with the riotous act of making art, particularly music, which becomes a bridge between past and future; a place for people to gather and celebrate life.
Garden of Dreams is one of five tracks created and released through the Kappa Originals x Bloom In Green ’22 ‘Co-Creation Project’—a collaborative album also featuring Fake Tattoos, Frizzell D’Souza, Jatayu, Kavitha Mohan, and Sekhar Menon, streaming on all major audio platforms since 2023. Categorised under World Music, this instrumental composition blends Syrian, Turkish, and Indian sounds with immersive electronic textures and ambient soundscapes. The track’s core spirit of people and cultures coming together to create is echoed in the newly-released music video.
Directed by Vinod Ravi, recent recipient of the Silver Young Directors Award at Cannes 2025, brought to life by Brown Crew Productions (the team behind Hanumankind’s global hits Big Dawgs and Run It Up), and cinematographed by Surjith S Pi (celebrated for the Malayalam sci-fi film Gaganachari), the video explores stories of the real world through the poetic lens of mysticism.
It opens with a quote by Sufi poet Rumi: “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Following this, a glowing crystal shatters, symbolising a once-whole world, now broken. The land lies barren and grey. From this silence, four musicians emerge, each from a different life, bearing their own stories. Without a single word with each other, instinctively, they rediscover their instruments and begin to play. The music artists behind Garden of Dreams—Bonny Joseph Abraham (composer, producer, oud, and saz), Rithu Vysakh (violin and string arrangement), Nithin Menon (darbuka and handpan), and Ram Kumar S (maschine)—appear as the cast of the video.
As the music rises, the world responds. Leaves unfurl. Flowers bloom. Colour fills each frame.The landscape begins to breathe again. These transformations are brought to life with precision by Boby Rajan and his team on the VFX, whose craft blends seamlessly into the visual narrative.
Garden of Dreams also shares a striking thematic resonance with the music video for Sushin Shyam’s indie track Ray, which explores music’s role in shaping, healing, and transforming the inner world. Though explored through distinct lenses, narrative styles, and visual canvases, both videos delve into the idea of music as both a catalyst for change and a constant companion in difficult times. Interestingly, beyond thematic parallels, the two projects also share key collaborators including Brown Crew Productions and Boby Rajan with his VFX team credited on both videos.
What makes Garden of Dreams striking is how it moves from solitude to togetherness. The musicians follow a trail of crystal shards that lead them to one another. Their music becomes a shared offering, and as they play together, the broken crystal slowly comes back to form, symbolising a world mended and made whole again by music.
Though filled with rich symbols, the video remains grounded in a simple truth: that creation, community, and sound are not luxuries, but essential lifelines.
In just three days, Garden of Dreams has drawn praise from viewers and artists alike:
“So happy to discover Bonny Abraham ensemble through this incredible original track and video. What a feeling to be back on a Kappa platform discovering the best artists working today. So happy to witness this. The video and music are so original never seen anything like this before. Crazy work guys.”
— Kaber Vasuki (Independent Musician)
“A masterpiece like this only happens when passionate artists, technicians, and visionaries come together. Every detail — sound, visuals, emotion — felt intentional and alive. Hats off to the entire team. You made magic.”
— YouTube User
At its core, Garden of Dreams is a question posed in melody and an answer shared in harmony. It invites us to consider what it means to restore not just the tangible world, but also the quiet places—the sacred gardens—within us that we so often forget to tend.
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